2 Page Double Spaced History Project Proposal

I don’t know how to handle this History question and need guidance.

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 2020 that is particularly memorable.

Choosing an obscure topic can often result in a more fascinating, and paradoxically, easier-to-write paper. But the pandemic and the George Floyd protests are current, massively important events for this course, and students are encouraged to use those as topics if they wish.

Just to get you started thinking about your oral history project, briefly provide a 1.5 – 2 page, double-spaced proposal (that you can modify or alter at any point in the future) regarding what you were planning on doing for your Oral History Project.

You should include in your proposal

a) a rough idea of the historical event pertaining to African-American history you are examining.

b) some suggestion about what living persons you may want to interview for the project and why you believe they will be strong subjects.

You may also want to include

a) what you think you may find in your interviews.

b) what differences in perspective, upbringing, background you may find between your two interviewees.

c) what you know about the event, and what you anticipate you may learn about the event.

d) why applying the lens of African-American history to this particular event is valuable, original, and important.