Margaret Mitchell wrote "Gone with the Wind" which was published in the mid 1930s, from which the movie of the same name was made in 1939. She lived all her life in Georgia, and grew up in the late 1800s, surrounded by all those women still wearing black, for loved ones lost in the war. Her portrayal of the people, and their beliefs and attitudes, of the time of the Civil War and the years after is probably as accurate a look as we are able to get from our viewpoint today. As is often the case you probably obtain a better evocation of the people from the book than you do from the movie.
She grew up in Atlanta, surrounded by aunts and great-aunts who remembered the war and told her all their stories. When it came to writing 'Gone With the Wind', she worked out the characters and more-or-less delivered all the anecdotes to the publisher, who skilfully sorted them into a coherent novel.
Margaret Sanger
important figure from civil rights era
The Reconstruction Era occurred right after the civil war. So the civil war caused the reconstruction era to begin.
Mary, Queen of Scots' aunt was Margaret Tudor, the sister of Henry VIII of England. Margaret married James IV of Scotland, making her the grandmother of Mary. This connection established a significant link between the Tudor and Stuart dynasties, influencing political alliances between England and Scotland during that era.
Margaret Higgins Sanger gave her speech, "The Children's Era," March 30, 1925, in New York, N.Y., at the Sixth International Neo-Malthusian and Birth Control Conference.
1861-1865
There is no 'theme song' to any era!
Reconstruction Era
The Civil War
It was the era before the Civil War.
Gwendolyn Brooks was a prominent African-American poet who wrote during the Civil Rights era. Other poets of that era include Nikki Giovanni and Sonia Sanchez.