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KEYWORDS + IDEAS
KEYWORDS + IDEAS
RESEARCH TRACKER (Shortened)
RESEARCH TRACKER (Longer)
ACTIVITY
USE Google to find archives for primary sources. Archives often have the materials available freely.
*use a dictionary! you may encounter terms you've never heard before.
AREAS TO CONSIDER
AREAS TO CONSIDER
infrastructure (highways, transportation), housing, education, recreation, climate, health
THE COLOR OF LAW (your book)
LIBRARY SOURCES
LIBRARY SOURCES
SOCIAL EXPLORER (socio data maps--login with your CSW google account)
PRIMARY SOURCES
PRIMARY SOURCES
AFRICAN AMERICAN HISTORICAL NEWSPAPERS for views and opinions of African Americans on your topic / time period
AMERICA'S HISTORICAL NEWSPAPERS use the timeline view to find your event/key dates
PROQUEST HISTORICAL NEWSPAPERS
CSW LIBRARY GUIDE TO PRIMARY SOURCES
MORE PRIMARY SOURCES
1964 TITLE VII CIVIL RIGHTS ACT
1917 BUCHANAN v. WARLEY, 245 U.S. 60
BROWN UNIVERSITY: US SCHOOLS (major project on school desegregation)
MAPPING INEQUALITY: REDLINING IN NEW DEAL AMERICA
PROQUEST: COLLECTION OF PRIMARY SOURCES (Select by Era; see Civil Rights Movement)
MISSISSIPPI ORAL HISTORY PROJECT (lots on Civil Rights)
CIVIL RIGHTS DIGITAL LIBRARY (search by events, people, and more)
VCU LIBRARIES: SOCIAL WELFARE HISTORY PROJECT (search by era)
MEDICAL HERITAGE LIBRARY: ROOTS OF RACISM IN HEALTH AND MEDICINE (navigate to primary source sets at left)
TIPS + DON't Forgets
TIPS + DON't Forgets
Doing research off campus? You will need to log into the database. Refer to the username and password here.
REMEMBER: You need to provide Footnotes in your paper. There are a few simple rules. Remind yourself of these rules here. Also a simple "cheat sheet" for building your own footnotes. Here's a video of how to create footnotes.
SEARCHING TIPS
SEARCHING TIPS
" "
" "
quotes around a search term keeps terms together; search engine won't search for each term separately (ex. "dust bowl")
~
~
tilda's before search terms search for like terms (ex. ~dust bowl will search for dust bowl, dust bowls)
SEARCHING FOR PRIMARY SOURCES
SEARCHING FOR PRIMARY SOURCES
Consider looking in digital archives, like the Library of Congress or University collections. Add "primary source" to your Google Search string.
In databases, add keywords like "eyewitness" "eyewitness account" "witness to" "speech" "diary" "oral history" to your searches. This will bring back ebooks with extensive primary sources within them.
FINDING OP-EDS
FINDING OP-EDS
USE PROQUEST HISTORICAL NEWSPAPERS
SELECT ADVANCED SEARCH
FOLLOW INSTRUCTIONS BELOW FOR HONING IN ON OPINION PIECES
UNDER ADVANCED SEARCH, YOU CAN ALSO SELECT COMMENTARY UNDER DOCUMENT TYPE INSTEAD OF USING SECTION LIMITER ABOVE.
NEED HELP?
NEED HELP?
Reach out to Jenna at jwolf@csw.org to set up time.
AREAS TO CONSIDER
AREAS TO CONSIDER
infrastructure, housing, education, recreation, climate
THE COLOR OF LAW (your book)
Alexander, Michelle. 2012. The New Jim Crow. Vol. Revised edition with a new foreword by Cornel West. New York: The New Press. http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&db=nlebk&AN=489643&site=ehost-live.
https://www.fhwa.dot.gov/infrastructure/50interstate.cfm
https://demographics.virginia.edu/DotMap/
PRIMARY SOURCES
1964 TITLE VII CIVIL RIGHTS ACT
1917 BUCHANAN v. WARLEY, 245 U.S. 60
CSW LIBRARY'S PRIMARY SOURCE GUIDE
AFRICAN AMERICAN NEWSPAPERS COLLECTION
MAPPING INEQUALITY: REDLINING IN NEW DEAL AMERICA
PROQUEST: COLLECTION OF PRIMARY SOURCES (Select by Era; see Civil Rights Movement)
MISSISSIPPI ORAL HISTORY PROJECT (lots on Civil Rights)
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