To Kill A Mockingbird: Chapter 20-25 Idioms and Allusions

A phrase from The Declaration of Independence

A reference to Eleanor Roosevelt, the wife of President Franklin D. Roosevelt

Albert Einstein,German-born physicist

John D. Rockefeller, one of the richest men in America at the time

3rd President of the United States and author of The Declaration of Independence

A city in Central Alabama.

First Lady Eleanor Roosevelt, wife of President Franklin D. Roosevelt.

In other words: the Northerners are responsible for the fact that the slaves were freed

In 1939, Eleanor Roosevelt attended a meeting for the Southern Conference for Human Welfare in Birmingham, Alabama where she defied state authorities by sitting in the center aisle, between whites and blacks, after police told her she was violating segregation laws by sitting with black people.

The waterway that separates Great Britain from France. It is also the avenue by which much trade is carried on between Great Britain and the European continent

to something is to prove that thing to be false or untrue

Chicken leg

Angry and upset; excited and emotional

In the case of the ladies of the missionary circle, that would be their work to aid missionaries around the world in their cause of converting people to Christianity.

Although this could be a reference to childbirth, it is more likely a reference to a woman's menstrual cycle