Updated by Mrs. McKenna 1/7/04

The purpose of this website is to provide you with some
internet resources as you go through the process of researching
the broad topic of Black History.

RESEARCHING THE REPORT

 Choose a specific topic
Develop insightful questions (BIG questions--> How?  Why?  What were the outcomes of...?  How did _____ change the world?)
Select your resources (books, encyclopedias, online, people...)
READ, READ, READ about your topic
Plan a system for organizing note taking to correspond with questions. Take notes using this system (I will give instructions on how to do this)
When you feel you have enough information begin writing

WRITING THE REPORT

 Write or type your draft using double spaces
Use your notes but write using your own words and "voice"
If you need more information, return to your sources and add to your notes before writing
Follow the writing process
--> revise for content, clarity and carefully chosen words
--> edit for correct sentence structure, grammar, usage, and mechanics
--> type your final copy and prepare a title page with the title of the report, your name and the date (pictures are optional)

INTERNET RESOURCES

Freedom A History of US--this website from PBS based on the book by Joy Hakim contains information about many points in our history where the rights and efforts of African Americans were of significant importance

The Hall of Black Achievement Gallery--includes links to thumbnails and audio clips of a host of African American luminaries

African American Odessy--The exhibition The African American Odyssey: A Quest for Full Citizenship, showcases the incomparable African American collections of the Library of Congress. Displaying more than 240 items, including books, government documents, manuscripts, maps, musical scores, plays, films, and recordings

The Rise and Fall of Jim Crow--Jim Crow was not a person, yet affected the lives of millions of people. Named after a popular 19th-century minstrel song that stereotyped African Americans, "Jim Crow" came to personify the system of government-sanctioned racial oppression and segregation in the United States.

Timeline of the Civil Rights Movement--Michigan University Political Science website in honor of Martin Luther King; a valuable listing of Key events in the struggle for civil rights for African Americans

African American Inventors--Explore some of the African American Inventors who made the World a better Place!

Culture and Change--Black History--a site sponsored by Scholastic that has many links about issues, people and events that are important to the changes that took place for African Americans.

Africans in America--a PBS website that follows the history of Africans in our country from the times of early settlement until the end of the Civil War. It tells of the journey of slavery in America.

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