The beginning of the Civil Rights Movement era corresponds to the period in which Harper Lee was writing about Scout Finch and her brother Jem. They live in the same state where events like the Montgomery Bus Boycott could occur. The fictional town of Maycomb is located in Alabama, the same state where Martin Luther King Jr. would become the voice of African Americans fighting for equality. The actual movement may have started in 1960, but that is the same year that To Kill a Mockingbird was published and major events were shaking the South, throughout the novel readers can see the attitude of desire and need to equality in the characters and in some events. The civil rights movement made national headlines in the 1950s and 1960s, but in places like Georgia it began as early as the 1940s. In Georgia, groups of African Americans organized themselves to try to vote. People like Thomas Brewer "a doctor from Columbus, organized the Primus Kings and several [groups] who attempted to vote in the July 4, 1944 primary, but were rebuffed" (Stephan Tuck). These events took place before the Brown v. Board Of Education trial in 1954, and even more protests arose after the case. Even before the 1940s, African Americans were not treated as equals in society. A year after Brown v. Board Of Education, the Montgomery Bus Boycott took place. On December 1, 1955, Rosa Parks, a woman from Montgomery, Alabama, refused to give up her seat to a white man and to move to the back. Rosa Parks had gone against the “Southern custom” (Clayborne Carson) of sitting in the back of the bus just because she was black. She was thrown in prison but the black community united and boycotted the buses. The boycott lasted more than a year and is… middle of paper… as when the jury was deliberating, the verdict took longer than the allotted five minutes. This tells the reader that there was some type of controversy over the verdict. Works Cited “Civil Rights Movement.” 2013. The History Channel website. Dec 13, 2013, 8:47am http://www.history.com/topics/civil-rights-movement http://www.britannica.com/EBchecked/topic/119368/American-civil-rights-movement """ American Civil Rights Movement"". Encyclopædia Britannica Inc., 2013. Web. 13 December 2013" Tuck, Stephen. "Civil Rights Movement." New Encyclopedia of Georgia. 06 November 2013. Web. 13 December 2013The death of Emmett Till.” 2013. The History Channel website. December 17, 2013, 1:00 am http://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/the-death-of-emmett-till.