We know that the setting of this story will be Maycomb, Alabama, a sleepy Southern town that's a little rough around the edges. What is the time period of this story? Give evidence to support your conclusion about the time period of this novel.

To Kill a Mockingbird is set in the early 1930s, during the Depression. The one definite date cited in the text is the year of Tom Robinson's trial, 1935.

There is a tendency in this year of grace, 1935, for certain people to use this phrase out of context, to satisfy all conditions.