Exploring the Power of Primary Sources to tell Stories from the Civil Rights Movement
Exploring the Power of Primary Sources to tell Stories from the Civil Rights Movement
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Primary Sources are original documents, images, artwork, or
Primary Sources are original documents, images, artwork, or
artifacts created during the time period you are studying.
artifacts created during the time period you are studying.
Primary Sources give us greater understanding of historical events because
Primary Sources give us greater understanding of historical events because
they are original, first-hand accounts given by people living during the time period.
they are original, first-hand accounts given by people living during the time period.
Secondary Sources are created after the event has taken place by someone who did not experience first-hand or participate in the events you’re researching.
Secondary Sources are created after the event has taken place by someone who did not experience first-hand or participate in the events you’re researching.
What are some examples of Primary Sources?
Primary Sources bring History to Life!
Primary Sources bring History to Life!
Image Inferences: A Picture Tells a Story
Image Inferences: A Picture Tells a Story
When analyzing civil rights era photos as primary documents you can make inferences about what was happening at that time but it’s Research that will bring the photos and other primary source documents to life and make your documentaries fascinating!
When analyzing civil rights era photos as primary documents you can make inferences about what was happening at that time but it’s Research that will bring the photos and other primary source documents to life and make your documentaries fascinating!
What is an Inference?
What is an Inference?
An inference is a conclusion reached after examining evidence and making a reasonable or educated guess. What inferences can you make about these photos? Ask yourself the questions a an investigative reporter or detective asks: Who What When Where Why and How?
An inference is a conclusion reached after examining evidence and making a reasonable or educated guess. What inferences can you make about these photos? Ask yourself the questions a an investigative reporter or detective asks: Who What When Where Why and How?
What do YOU think is happening in these photos?
What do YOU think is happening in these photos?
The Power of Visual Storytelling in Sharing Events from the Civil Rights Movement
The Power of Visual Storytelling in Sharing Events from the Civil Rights Movement
Goal/Objective: To research personal narratives and stories that help us better understand the struggle for equality during the Civil Rights Movement and to create a project (min-documentary, essay, poster, podcast, etc.) using primary sources and personal narratives.
Choose an event that happened during the Civil Rights Movement then research a variety of resources, including primary sources and personal narratives, to find an interesting story to tell around this event.
Create a project that portrays the Civil Rights story that you discover through your research.
Click here for Ideas to Research from the Civil Rights Movement to Research
Resources for Civil Rights Era Research!
Resources for Civil Rights Era Research!
A Great Place to Start! The Civil Rights Digital Library: An amazing collection of primary sources of the events, people and places of the Civil Rights Movement!
The Library of Congress Civil Rights History Project – Searchable collection of Primary Sources, especially personal interviews!
Civil Rights Collection at the National Museum of African American History & Culture
The Library of Congress exhibition documents of events during the Civil Rights Movement in the United States, including thousands of personal stories, oral histories, and photographs collected by the “Voices of Civil Rights” project.
The Library of Congress exhibition documents of events during the Civil Rights Movement in the United States, including thousands of personal stories, oral histories, and photographs collected by the “Voices of Civil Rights” project.
The Library of Congress Civil Rights History Project – Searchable collection of Primary Sources, especially interviews
Civil Rights Movement Database created and maintained by veterans of the Southern Freedom Movement (1951-1968) “to preserve and make available original-materials, histories, narratives, remembrances, and commentaries related to that movement. It is where we tell it like it was, the way we lived it, the way we saw it, the way we still see it.”
The New York Times Times Machine: A searchable archive of digitized issues of the New York Times published between 1851 and 2002. (login: djerome@brunswicksd.org / Dragons116!)
The New York Times Times Machine: A searchable archive of digitized issues of the New York Times published between 1851 and 2002. (login: djerome@brunswicksd.org / Dragons116!)
Google Newspaper Archive: free access to scanned archives of newspapers from the 1700s to the 2000s.
Google Newspaper Archive: free access to scanned archives of newspapers from the 1700s to the 2000s.
Online King Records Access (OKRA) at the Martin Luther King, Jr. Research and Education Institute at Stanford University a searchable database giving you access to thousands of King documents through the year 1968
Online King Records Access (OKRA) at the Martin Luther King, Jr. Research and Education Institute at Stanford University a searchable database giving you access to thousands of King documents through the year 1968
The Vault: FBI Records during the Civil Rights Movement, made possible by the FOIA (Freedom of Information Act.
Seminal Documents of the Civil Rights Movement, Listed Chronologically
Southern Freedom Movement’s amazing Spreadsheet with links to all Civil Rights Movement Archives, Centers & Monuments
Southern Freedom Movement’s amazing Spreadsheet with links to all Civil Rights Movement Archives, Centers & Monuments
Pacifica Radio Archives: A living History ~ A searchable collection of radio broadcasts including the Civil Rights Movement
Pacifica Radio Archives: A living History ~ A searchable collection of radio broadcasts including the Civil Rights Movement
Special Collections & Archives at Bowdoin College Library, housing primary sources on Martin Luther King’s visit to Bowdoin College in 1964.
Listen to this recording of Martin Luther King Jr.’s speech at First Parish Church in Brunswick during his visit to Bowdoin College in 1964.
Credits:
https://dailysun.bowdoin.edu/2016/01/honoring-the-legacy-martin-luther-king-jr-speaks-at-bowdoin-in-1964/
https://www.bowdoin.edu/mlk/mlks-visit-to-bowdoin.html
https://web.bowdoin.edu/art-museum/fifty-years/index.html
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