How were Black people treated in sports during the civil rights movement.
Here is where you will get your sources.
proposal, you are required to turn in 1) your research question and proposed argument and 2) an annotated bibliography
1. Research Question (500 words)
A research project is not an encyclopedia style laundry list of facts. A research project asks you to consider facts and then explore why they matter and what relevance they have to society. A research project asks you to make an argument about the facts you are presenting.
Make sure you move beyond a research topic and actually settle on a research question. What’s the difference between a research topic and a research question?:
A simple research topic is too broad. For example:
Black Americans and the Civil War may be a broad topic that interests you, but this is not yet a question you can attempt to answer.
How did Black American participation in the Union and Confederate armies change during the course of the war? is one example of a research question you might create from the previous topic.
A research question must also not be too narrow.
How were Black Americans participating in the Civil War in eastern Kentucky in June of 1864? is one example of a question which relates to the previous topic, but which is too narrow in scope to be reasonable.
As you explore scholarly secondary sources and historical primary sources, you may need to periodically re-evaluate your research question to ensure that it is neither too broad nor too narrow.
A research question might ask:
“how or why an event happened (causation, explanation)”
“what the consequences were of a particular event”
“what are the intellectual origins of a particular idea”
“what the cultural context of an event was”;
“whether or not an individual was responsible for a certain act”
“about the social history of a political event”
“to quantify broad trends in a society at a particular time”
2. An Annotated Bibliography (750-1000 words)
An annotated bibliography is a list of citations to books, articles, and documents. Each citation is followed by a brief (usually about 150 words) descriptive and evaluative paragraph, the annotation. The purpose of the annotation is to inform the reader of the relevance, accuracy, and quality of the sources cited.
In your annotated bibliography you should list at least five scholarly sources you will consult for your research project. Your annotated bibliography should not include readings from class. The five scholarly sources presented here must come from your own research.
