Category: History

Your assignment is to write a paper (4-6 pages) examining the Civil Rights Movement in American history using a number of primary sources provided by the instructor. In four to six pages, the paper should attempt to address the struggles, problems, resistance to, and goals of the movement.
The entire purpose of the study of history is to learn from the past. Not to idolize it, not to romanticize it, not to tailor it to fit our world view, but to learn from it. History is messy – it is never as neat as a movie or even a classroom exam might make it seem. Our present is shaped by the past, and while it is useful to understand the past, one must never want to live there. 2020 has seen extraordinary times – a global pandemic, protests and upheaval in American life, and no doubt these events will be discussed in a future history class. Yet these events are not new, and comparisons with history could prove eye opening. As debates over the questions of race touch not only American society but even conversations here at Oklahoma State University (such as Friday, June 18, 2020’s vote to rename Murray Hall), it would be helpful to understand the history of race in America.
For the purposes of this assignment, and taking in to account the compressed nature of our course, I am going to provide the source material for you. Your task, using the sources available is to write a 4-6 page paper on any topic of your choice in the Civil Rights Movement. Individual people, protests, reactions, themes, whatever interests you. Beyond formatting, the stipulations for the paper are:
It must be over a topic relevant to the Civil Rights Movement.
It can ONLY use the sources available below. No other books, websites, interviews, etc will be allowed.
It cannot be opinion based. Your paper needs to be drawn from facts and sources, not hearsay and personal opinion.
You must cite heavily – you need to make use of any 10 documents/sources and need to cite from them numerous times. One of these collections could – and do – include numerous documents. A single image, or interview, or image counts as a document.
Document collections:
Library of Congress Civil Rights Era Primary Documents: https://memory.loc.gov/ammem/aaohtml/exhibit/aopart9.htmlLinks to an external site.
Library of Congress Resources on Jim Crow Laws and Segregation: http://www.loc.gov/teachers/classroommaterials/primarysourcesets/civil-rights/Links to an external site.
Library of Congress Resources on the NAACP and Freedom Rides: http://www.loc.gov/teachers/classroommaterials/primarysourcesets/naacp/Links to an external site.
The Crisis: https://books.google.com/books/serial/-EIEAAAAMBAJ?rview=1&lr=&sa=N&start=390Links to an external site.
Eyes on the Prize Documentary Series: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL_VA9idx-8ty9iTGtgsRHNlzYXJgjtBy9Links to an external site. *UPDATED LINK* NOTE: This source may be unavailable.
FBI Records Civil Rights Activists and Events: https://vault.fbi.gov/civil-rightsLinks to an external site.
Primary Source Martin Luther King: https://kinginstitute.stanford.edu/king-papers/documentsLinks to an external site.
Rosa Parks Papers: https://www.loc.gov/collections/rosa-parks-papers/about-this-collectionLinks to an external site.
Travel Places of the Civil Rights Movement: https://www.nps.gov/subjects/travelweshallovercome/index.htmLinks to an external site.
Grading Criteria
The paper, beyond addressing the prompt and using citation, must be proofread, follow the rules of academic writing (see the Reading Yesterday, Writing Today handout), and avoid typographical errors, spelling errors, contractions, first person, run on sentences, and use correct grammar and punctuation. The paper must have a clear thesis statement (an argument, as in [for example] “the Civil War was an irrepressible conflict because…” or “the Civil War could have been avoided if…” Your essay must use paragraphs (three to five sentences) and evidence to support the thesis, and have a strong conclusion. If you need assistance, do not hesitate to see the instructor or go to the OSU Writing Center in Morrill Hall, Room 104.
Your paper must be a minimum of four pages, and should not exceed six full pages (on the rare chance it does, it is perfectly fine).. The paper should be in Times New Roman font, 12 point, with 1” margins. You may need to adjust the margins manually by using the Page Layout Tab of Microsoft Word. The paper must include footnotes, and you must cite all of your information to avoid the appearance of plagiarism. We will discuss this in class, however, the Reading Yesterday, Writing Today: A Student Guide to the Study of History at Oklahoma State University will be helpful in explaining how to properly footnote sources. Please be sure to attach the enclosed rubric to your paper when you turn it (a five point deduction if you do not). The rubric lets you know how you will be graded, so before turning in your paper, please review the rubric to ensure that your paper successfully meets the criteria.
Grading Rubric for Term Paper Name:__________________________________
Automatic F Penalties
Does not meet minimum four full pages (Max grade 59%)
No citations (Max grade 59%)
Does not follow prompt (Max Grade 59%)
Point Deductions
Improper Margins or Font -5 points
Grade Items
____ Thesis (10 Points) – Does the student have a clear, concise thesis?
____ Uses at Least 10 Sources. (30 Points) – Do you cite from 10 different documents and use them multiple times throughout the paper?
____ Historical discussion (35 Points) – Does the student adequately discuss the historical background of the Civil Rights Movement? Do you critically analyze photographs, people, and events, and try to examine the realities behind the struggle for equality in the 1950s and 1960s?
____ Academic Writing, Organization, and Polish (25 Points) – Does the student follow the rules of academic writing? Avoid first person, contractions, grammatical errors, etc?
Total points: 100.

journal article, film, or cultural event related to Indigenous cultural groups.

One page / critique
1. Thesis: What is the purpose of the article, film, or event?
2. Summary: Summarize the author’s purpose and main points/evidence cited.
3. Analysis: Who is the author or director of the article, film, or event? What is the point of view or bias of the article, film, or event and how was that expressed?
4. Critique: How well did the article, film or event achieve the purpose?
5. Opinion: What is your general opinion of article, film, or event?

Prompt: Historians debate whether slavery was the central issue that led to the Civil War. Using the McPherson Reader, this week’s course content, and the text, examine both sides of this issue and present your historical perception. Argue your thesis with support from your readings of the Civil War. need Three to four pages double spaced with in text citations and a work cited page I will send book through email , also attached are some other reading to input as well

I need a book journal for the book, I need someone who read it before.
its for history 1301. I have a short journal, i want someone to add info into it, and make it about 5 pages or longer, please dont forget formatting

Since history is, in essence, a story and not a series of random, disconnected facts,
students should be able to transform the information covered in this class into a
narrative form that articulates something about our nation’s past. Students will submit a
5-7 page essay related to the material covered in the class. The essay will be
comprehensive in nature, and students are expected to incorporate information
gathered through a variety of different sources. The paper will count 100 points toward
the final grade. The paper will be typed and double-spaced and in the proper
Chicago/Turabian format and include a works cited page with a minimum of five
sources.
Discuss the changing role of the federal government in American history since 1865.
What circumstances brought about the changes in government’s role, and what
movements and programs were created to deal with those circumstances? How have
the American people viewed their government, and where are we today regarding this
subject?
Your essay should be a minimum of 5-7 pages. This page count does not include
any cover sheet.
2. Your essay must be formatted using 1” margins for all margins (top, bottom, left
and right).
3. Your essay should be typed using 12pt. Times New Roman font.
4. Your essay needs to be double-spaced.
5. Please do include any headers with page numbers.
6. Your research essay should be accompanied by a cover sheet that states your
paper title, your name, your course, and date.
7. All of your sources should be cited using the Chicago/Turabian style.

• Must be typed, double-spaced, 12-point font, minimum 900-word essay. • Format paragraphs with complete sentences including grammar and spell check. o Must include a short introduction and a short conclusion paragraph. o Do not use “I” in your essay.

Background: One of President Andrew Jackson’s more controversial moves was to defy a Supreme Court ruling that the U.S. government had no right to interfere in a sovereign Indian Nation, by forcing the Cherokee Indians to move to Oklahoma. Although this was an illegal act, President Jackson held a great deal of power among supporters in Congress and in the public, allowing him to get away with forcing the Cherokee out anyway. To make his case to his supporters, President Jackson issued a press-release about his decision.
How to Prepare for this assignment: Read about the Trail of Tears (and Age of Jackson) in your textbook, and see the relevant lecture. This context is important for the quality of your reply.
Your task: Read the text of this message, focusing especially upon the bolded text towards the end. Then answer the three questions and upload them to this assignment:
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MESSAGE TO THE PEOPLE OF THE UNITED STATES ON INDIAN REMOVAL
President Andrew Jackson
It gives me pleasure to announce to Congress that the benevolent policy of the Government, steadily pursued for nearly thirty years, in relation to the removal of the Indians beyond the white settlements is approaching to a happy consummation. Two important tribes have accepted the provision made for their removal at the last session of Congress, and it is believed that their example will induce the remaining tribes also to seek the same obvious advantages.
The consequences of a speedy removal will be important to the United States, to individual States, and to the Indians themselves. The advantages which it promises to the Government are the least of its recommendations. It puts an end to all possible danger of collision between the authorities of the General and State Governments on account of the Indians. It will place a dense and civilized population in large tracts of country now occupied by a few savage hunters. (……) It will separate the Indians from immediate contact with settlements of whites; free them from the power of the States; enable them to pursue happiness in their own way and under their own rude institutions; will retard the progress of decay, which is lessening their numbers, and perhaps cause them gradually, under the protection of the Government and through the influence of good counsels, to cast off their savage habits and become an interesting, civilized, and Christian community.
(…..)
Rightly considered, the policy of the General Government toward the red man is not only liberal, but generous. He is unwilling to submit to the laws of the States and mingle with their population. To save him from this alternative, or perhaps utter annihilation, the General Government kindly offers him a new home, and proposes to pay the whole expense of his removal and settlement.
________________________________________
Your task: Read the text of this message, focusing especially upon the bolded text towards the end. Then answer the three questions and upload them to this assignment:
1. Google the “Cherokee Nation History.” In 1830, what was the Cherokee Nation like (where was it, how many Cherokee were there, did they have a governmental system and civilization of any kind, or were they, as Jackson noted, simply “a few savage hunters?”. Be sure to cite what website(s) you are using in your answer.
2. What did Jackson mean, do you think, when he said the Cherokee could over time cast off their “savage habits and become an interesting, civilized, and Christian community?”
3. Why do you think President Jackson used the kind of language that you looked at in the two questions above in his Message to the American People when he decided to force the Cherokee to move?

Directions for Option B, Museum Topic:
The Google Site should have 1,000 words of text, roughly a 3-4 double-spaced paper. Make sure there is a Works Cited page (which does not count with the page length). Make sure to cite or leave a footnote on any information that is not your own work. Direct quotes and paraphrased sections from the resources need to be cited. It is ok to have a lot of citations. More citations the better. When in doubt, cite it out.
Students should complete the following steps for the Museum Topic Website:
Use your Outline / Rough Draft as the foundation for creating the Museum Topic Website.
Include at least two research article / book / approved website into the Museum Topic Website.
Include a Work Cited page.
Make sure to clearly cite the research materials in the Museum Topic Website.
Use the Citation Guide below to assist you.
Have Fun 🙂
Citation
Guide
Citations
In academic writing it is important that citations are properly given as a way to: 1) give credit to the original author’s ideas and 2) to inform the reader where the information came from. Here are some examples of properly citing from a textbook:
Direct quote:
“About 12,000 years ago (around 10,000 BCE), a fundamental shift occurred in the way humans produced food for themselves—what some scholars have called an agricultural, or ecological, revolution” (Worlds Together, Worlds Apart, 22).
As you can see, there are quotation marks (“”) around the material taken straight from the textbook, Worlds Together, Worlds Apart; which is followed by the textbook title in abbreviated format and the page number from where the quote can be found. If the material being quoted is more than two sentences, then the writer should paraphrase the material in their own words while still providing proper citation.
Indirect (paraphrased) quote:
According to the textbook, around 12,000 years ago a shift occurred in the ways humans produced food, which is called the agricultural revolution (Worlds Together, Worlds Apart, 22). During the same period a warming trend occurred, which allowed for a wealth of plants and animals to be exposed and domesticated by early humans (Worlds Together, Worlds Apart, 22).
This paraphrased quote is citing two sentences from the textbook and provided proper citation material: textbook name, followed by the page number.
Proper citations are also required when quoting, directly or indirectly, from lecture PPT slides and primary sources (either from the textbook, textbook reader, or on Canvas).
You can also use the author’s last name followed by the page number:
During the same period a warming trend occurred, which allowed for a wealth of plants and animals to be exposed and domesticated by early humans (Pollard, 22).
As long as the reader, me, knows where the information is coming from, then using either title or author is ok with me. Please do not stress on the minutia or small details of MLA or Chicago Style, as long as the information presented in the Website is clearly from the Work Cited page, then I am happy.
Outline:
History Project Outline
I. Introduce Family Life of the Chicano Movement of the 1960s and 1970s
A. Who are they and why were they important?
II. Family Life of the Chicano Movement of the 1960s and 1970s:
A. Explore family life in the 1960s
(how they were being treated)
B. Explore family life in the 1970s
(how they were being treated)
III. Explain where it was popular and what it was like:
A. Explain the Aztlan and why it was important to families there
IV. Talk about farmwork
A. Farmworks (how it helped them)
B. Talk about it being the worst job yet was one of the only jobs
C. Kids would stay at school while parents work as farmworkers
V. Personal opinion
A. What is my input on the fact of the movement?
B. How do I feel about the Mexican Immigrants in the 1960s-1970s?
VI. Conclusion
A. Wrap everything up
Reintroduce the movement
What the movement was about
How does it affect them
The main point (Argument/Thesis) is the answer to your research inquiry. For example, This paper will look at Family Life of the Chicano Movement of the 1960s and the 1970s issue, which is comparable to events that happened during the 1960s and 1970s, indactign how was work, how were the families, what they were seen as and more..
Library Books:
The Chicano generation: testimonios of the movementLinks to an external site.
Garcia, Mario T
Revelation in Aztlán: Scriptures, Utopias, and the Chicano MovementLinks to an external site.
Hidalgo, Jacqueline M.
Online Cites:
https://www.facinghistory.org/resource-library/background-chicano-movementLinks to an external site.
https://www.history.com/news/chicano-movementLinks to an external site.
Hello,
I am doing Option B and I am going to research Family Life. I will be talking about the Family Life of the Chicano Movement of the 1960s and 1970s. I will research and highlight the key figures and events they faced and what it was like.

Respond to each person below either agreeing with something they said or giving positive feedback in 150+words the original question being asked is also included

HIS 141 O01N Final Exam 2024 Page1of9
This is an open-book, take-home final exam.
PLEASE READ THE INSTRUCTIONS BEFORE
BEGINNING WORK ON YOUR EXAM ESSAYS.
INSTRUCTIONS FOR ALL ESSAYS
The exam essays must be entirely your own
work. You must cite all sources of information you
use to write your exam essays, using footnotes after
each fact or piece of information from a source you
read to show where the words or information came
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from.1 You must put every phrase or sentence that
you yourself did not write in quotation marks.
1Please consult the University of North Carolina at
Chapel Hill Writing Center site for information on
how to cite sources in academic papers at the
following link:
information/chicago-notes-in-text>. Remember that
all citations must include the author, title, source,
date, and the specific page number. If you are
unsure how to add footnotes to your paper in
Microsoft Word, please review the instructions at the
following link:
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Use the assigned course readings and resources
to write your exam. If you need to, you may also
use refereed sources (sources that have been written,
peer-reviewed and verified by scholars or experts)
from the TCC library website to contextualize your
responses. On the TCC library homepage click on
the “Libraries during COVID-19” link under the
“Alerts and News” heading. On the following page,
click on the link to the “Digital Resources Guide” in
the dark blue box on the left-side of the page. You
us/article/insert-footnotes-and-endnotes-61f3fb1a-
4717-414c-9a8f-015a5f3ff4cb>.
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may access the library homepage via the following
link: . You
may NOT use Wikipedia, nor use websites ending
in .com or .net.
Your exam must be formatted in either Arial or
Times New Roman font, in 22-point font (not 12-
point-font!), and double-spaced. At the top of your
paper, include your full name, your VCCS email
address, your course number (HIS 141 O01N), and
the date that you are turning in the final exam.
Name the computer file that contains your exam
with a label like this: DS141FE. That tells me that
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the paper is from David Smith in History 141 and
that it is his Final Exam paper.
Question 1 (Required)
You are applying for a job directing an African
American History Bus Tour for College Students,
now that Covid restrictions have been lifted! The
application requires you to write an essay explaining
an African American History tour that you would
lead, covering the era from 1619 through 1877. The
trip must include sites in Virginia, and may also
include Maryland, Washington, D.C., North
Carolina, and South Carolina. Organize the trip
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logically and thoughtfully. Your trip must have an
overarching thesis or theses. Explain how the
physical sites and the primary and secondary source
documents you assign to your students (and cite in
your essay) will develop the tour’s overall thesis or
theses. Your response to Question 1 must be at least
800 words in length, excluding citations, and may be
up to 1200 words, excluding citations.
HINT: Be specific. Remember to incorporate
what you know from Northup, from Nell Irvin
Painter’s textbook Creating Black Americans, and
from any other assignments for our course. For
example, when you are writing about
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Reconstruction, discuss the document from Norfolk,
Virginia.
Question 2 (required)
Using (and citing) the Painter textbook Creating
Black Americans and the article “Abolitionism in the
United States” by James Sellman2, explain the fight
2 James Sellman, “Abolitionism in the United
States,” Oxford University Press African American
Studies Center. Oxford University Press, December
1, 2006.
.
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Question 3 (Extra Credit: Not Required)
How did what you learned in our course shape your
understanding of the events of the past year? Write a
thoughtful essay in response to this question. Your
answer must connect to themes related to African
American History. You must cite all sources you use
in your paper. Your response to Question 3 should
be at least 200 words in length, excluding citations.