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HIS 100 Project Use this template to address the steps in your Project Guidelines and Rubric. Replace the bracketed text with your responses. Ensure that you have considered your instructor’s feedback when revising your work. Proofread the entire document before submitting. Part 1: Creating a Research Question 1. Describe how your assumptions, beliefs, and values influenced your choice of topic. There was a television show that mentioned the massacre and I began to take interest in the event and started doing my own research, but it also made me wonder why I never learned about it in school as well as wonder why it had been covered up for so many years. 2. Discuss the significance of your historical research question in relation to your current event. The significance of the historical event in my relation to the current event is that there are still survivors alive today still fighting to be heard and get reparations for everything they experienced during and the aftermath of the event. 3. Explain how you used sources to finalize your research question. I used my resources to research different ways the history of the event has been told and how the news of it has been spread to finalize my question. I also used my resources to compare students from the past and current students as well as how students respond to when they learn about the incident. Part 2: Building Context to Address Questions 1. Describe the context of your historical event that influenced your current event. According to the research, hundreds of residents in the Greenwood area were affected by the incident in 1921, but there were also several survivors who now want their point of view to be heard. The survivors tell their stories through interviews with historical researchers, who then create a narrative. Whether it be an article on a website, a news story, or a chapter in a school history book, the points of view are acknowledged. The lawsuit that has been an ongoing battle results from the survivors' stories being heard and people beginning to support them and assist them in being recognized. The education system is also taking notice and implementing the event's history in an academic setting. 2. Describe a historical figure or group’s participation in your historical event. Several people were involved in the Tulsa Massacre, but there are three specific people it began with. They are Dick Rowland, who was the young African American man who was accused of assaulting a white woman by the name of Sarah Page. The extent of the assault is unclear because several sources say that he stepped on her shoe, and other reports say that Rowland physically assaulted her in an elevator. While Rowland was in jail, the local newspaper printed a headline portraying that lynching would occur, which resulted in a group of African Americans descending on the outside of the prison. Still, the spark that started the two-day-long fires came from an unknown man who fired the first shot and sent the entire event into motion. 1
3. Explain the historical figure or group’s motivation to participate in your historical event. There are a few reports that say that the Ku Klux Klan was involved, but some refer to them simply as a mob of White Americans. They were considered the antagonists at the end of the massacre. Several homes and businesses were destroyed in the two-day event allegedly by the Klan. Part 3: Examining How Bias Impacts Narrative 1. Describe a narrative you identified while researching the history of your historical event. The narrative I identified was from a survivor of the event from a source called “100 Years Later, A Survivor’s Story of The Tulsa Race Massacre”, which is a radio broadcast by Olivia Hooker. In this broadcast, she tells her version of what happened that day when she was a child. 2. Articulate how biased perspectives presented in primary and secondary sources influence what is known or unknown about history. Bias perspectives presented in primary and secondary sources can highly influence the outcome of what is known or unknown in history because if the person writing the article or giving the broadcast has any implicit or explicit bias, it will show in their writing. Some certain words or gestures can be demonstrated by that person that can influence how the reader or listener will react or respond to the event being talked about. If the author is not careful in portraying the information, it can easily influence the audience into thinking and believing the same biases as the author. 3. Identify the perspectives that you think are missing from your historical event’s narrative. The perspective that I believe is missing from the narrative is that of the antagonist, who is someone out of the mob of White Americans. During my research, I could not locate a point of view from someone deputized and given a weapon by the local government. I believe if that point of view were given, we would better understand what they were instructed to do that day. We are also missing a point of view from someone outside of the event, such as someone from another town or a different nationality who lived close to the Greenwood area at the time of the massacre. Part 4: Connecting the Past With the Present 1. Explain how researching its historical roots helped improve your understanding of your current event. Researching this historical event not only increased my understanding of what happened but also encouraged me to do even more research into what is happening today with the survivors as well as how others are learning about the event, whether it through an academic setting or how I first learned about it through a television show. I plan to take a trip to Tulsa soon due to living only 4 hours away to understand better where Greenwood once stood and the society that thrived there so long ago. 2. Articulate how questioning your assumptions, beliefs, and values may benefit you as an individual. Everyone always says asking questions is great, and I believe in that concept. Questioning myself before doing or saying something can determine the outcome of any situation, I may be in. As a child or adolescent, we learn that it's rarely good to assume things, so if you are unsure, ask yourself internally what the outcome of the situation would be if we just 2
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