8th Grade Research Topics
This is a list of possible topics for you to research. You can decide to research something different, but it must be related to the to the book To Kill A Mockingbird by Harper Lee. If you decide to come up with your own topic, you must get it approved by Ms. Watkins or Ms. Williams.
- Harper Lee
- Jim Crow Laws
- Southern race relations in 1932
- 13th and 14th Amendments
- Robert E Lee
- Great Depression and the New Deal
- Stock Market Crash
- Black Thursday
- Truman Capote (relationship with Harper Lee)
- Southern race relations in 1932 and 1961
- Trial by jury in the South during the 1930's
- Horton Foote and the film version of To Kill a Mockingbird
- Emmet Till
- Rosa Parks
- Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.
- Little Rock Nine
- National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP)
- Malcom X
- Affirmative Action
- American Civil Rights movement
- Plessy v. Ferguson
- Brown v. Board of Education
- Voting Rights Act
- Civil Rights Act of 1964
