For this paper, you will be engaging in a short oral history project involving data collection, analysis and presentation. Each student will choose a particular event in African-American history (or American history that is relevant to the African-American experience) between 1920 and 2016 that is particularly memorable.
Choosing an obscure topic can often result in a more fascinating, and paradoxically, easier-to-write paper. Your interview subjects must have lived during the event in question and should have memories of the event (i.e. they shouldn’t be so young as to not remember it well.)
All events relevant to the American experience are relevant to the specifically African-American experience. Whatever event you choose, you should examine it from the perspective of how it influenced, shaped, impacted, was inspired by, drew strength from, or otherwise involved the African-American experience in the United States.
a) Define the event (or series of events, or period)
b) Find individuals living during the period who remember the event
c) Determine what questions should be asked of those individuals about the event
d) Pool the data and questions about the event collected and present it in a short analytical report using outside sources.
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