"To Kill a Mockingbird" Harper Lee (context of production)

This second period we've been reading Harper's Lee "To Kill  a Mockingbird", and our task now is to make a brief research of the author, according to the context of production, so that we understand better the book, that by the way I believe is very interesting.

Nelle Harper Lee was born on April 28, 1926, to Amasa Coleman Lee and Frances Cunningham Finch Lee. Harper Lee grew up in the small southwestern Alabama town of Monroeville. Her father, a former newspaper editor and proprietor, was a lawyer who also served on the state legislature (1926-38). As a child, Lee was a tomboy and a precocious reader, and she enjoyed the friendship of her schoolmate and neighbor, the young Truman Capote, who provided the basis of the character of Dill in her novel To Kill a Mockingbird.
Lee was only five years old in when, in April 1931 in the small Alabama town of Scottsboro, the first trials began with regard to the purported rapes of two white women by nine young black men. The defendants, who were nearly lynched before being brought to court, were not provided with the services of a lawyer until the first day of trial. Despite medical testimony that the women had not been raped, the all-white jury found the men guilty of the crime and sentenced all but the youngest, a twelve-year-old boy, to death. Six years of subsequent trials saw most of these convictions repealed and all but one of the men freed or paroled. The Scottsboro case left a deep impression on the young Lee, who would use it later as the rough basis for the events in To Kill a Mockingbird.
(http://www.gradesaver.com/author/harper-lee/)

I havent realised that the book (TKM) was so related to her life, almost everything is attached to what I've read of the book, it's not for just putting words but in this case the context of production helps you understanding how and why is Alabama and Maycomb (the citizens).

Other things of the context are:
-economic depression
-unemployement
-dust howl
-crazies 20's (post WWI)
-Jim Crow Laws ---> racism