**PLEASE READ** For the project, you must choose a topic or event that occurred during the time period discussed in this course. You are required to turn in a three-page, double-spaced paper on your topic with a bibliography of your research. In your research, you will rely heavily on an oral interview of a person who lived through/experienced your chosen topic. Interviews can take a long time, so PLAN AHEAD. Make sure you ask broad as well as detailed questions. You MUST also include a scholarly work (book or article) that is outside of your textbook about your chosen topic. You need to use the MLA format for the citations and bibliography for your paper. Your paper should have the standard 12 pt font and 1”-1.25” side margins. It should also contain a thesis (that is, a statement declaring the significance of your chosen topic). You will be graded on grammar, your research effort and your obtained level of knowledge of your chosen topic. Possible Topics include: Ku Klux Klan Jim Crow Laws The Great Depression Pearl Harbor Bombing World War II Japanese-American Internment Manhattan Project Zoot-Suit Riots Cold War Korean War McCarthyism The Apollo Program Brown v. Board of Education The Civil Rights Movement Martin Luther King, Jr. Robert Kennedy assassination John F. Kennedy assassination John Lennon assassination Vietnam War The Women’s Movement Bay of Pigs The Watergate Scandal Kent State Shootings WPA (Works Progress Administration) Sample Interview Questions* When and where were you born? Talk about your parents or your family background Where was your family originally from? What did your parents do for a living? Did you contribute to the family income or help parents in their work in any way? Was your family affected by the Depression? Did you or anyone close to you serve in a war? What do you remember of that experience? Did you support or oppose the war in Vietnam? How did you express your political opinions? Did you participate in, or do you have any memories of any of the movements that came out of the 1950s, ’60s, and ’70s, such as the civil rights movement? If the family member belongs to a group that has traditionally been discriminated against: what were you told, both positive and negative, about your group inside your family? Outside? Did you experience discrimination? Who were your role models? If the family member is an immigrant or the child/grandchild of immigrants: what do you know of the country you or they came from? Why did you or they immigrate? How did you or they immigrate? What were some of your or their experiences and difficulties of beginning a life in a new country? Do you remember your first contact with such significant inventions as radio, television, or a computer? When did your family first buy these items?
