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HIS 100 Module Four Activity Template: Bias in Primary Sources
Jerry O’Brian
May 24,2023
Locate an additional primary source relevant to your historical event. Use it and the primary source
you identified in a previous module to answer the questions below. Replace the bracketed text with
your responses.
Source One
Conduct source analysis on a primary source relevant to your historical event.
Attempt to write the APA style citation for your first primary source and include a link to it. You
will not be penalized for incorrect format.
Oliphant, John A. (1921, July 3). “Transcript of the Evidence of the Witnesses, John A. Oliphant
and Laurel J. Buck.”
https://digitalprairie.ok.gov/digital/collection/race-riot/id/1204/rec/1
Respond to the following questions:
· Who authored or created the primary source?
John A Oliphant
· What was the author’s position in society at the time the primary source was created?
White Judge
· When was the primary source created?
July 3, 1921
· Where was the primary source created, released, or publicized?
District Court, Tulsa, Oklahoma
· Who was the intended audience for the primary source?
Jury
· Why was the primary source created?
Court Case against John A Gustafson concerning the events of the Tulsa Massacre
· Whose perspective(s) is presented in the source?
The perspective of Mr. Oliphant in what he saw during the events of the Tulsa Massacre
Source Two
Conduct a source analysis on a primary source relevant to your historical event.
Attempt to write the APA style citation for your second primary source and include a link to it. You
will not be penalized for incorrect format.
Franklin, Buck Cobert. (1921, May 31). “The Tulsa Race Riot and Three of Its Victims.”
https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smithsonian-institution/long-lost-manuscript-contains-searing-
eyewitness-account-tulsa-race-massacre-1921-180959251/
Respond to the following questions:
· Who authored or created the primary source?
Buck Cobert Franklin
· What was the author’s or creator’s position in society at the time the primary source was created?
Black Lawyer
· When was the primary source created?
May 31 1921
· Where was the primary source created, released, or publicized?
Personal Manuscript discovered in 2015
· Who was the intended audience for the primary source?
Public
· Why was the primary source created?
To give an account of Mr. Franklins eyewitness account of the Tulsa Massacre and how it impacted
3 of the victims.
· Whose perspective(s) is presented in the source?
The perspective of Mr Franklin
Both Sources
Analyze the primary sources relevant to your historical event for the presence of bias.
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