Answer each question separately and number your answers.
You must use at least 2 primary & 2 secondary source (Include a bibliography at end) the primary sources: Harriet Tubman : Conductor on the Underground Railroad by Arlene Balkansky from Healines & Heroes Newspaers, Comics & More from the library of congress blogs. interview by Mary Louise Kelly from NPR intereviewing Ruby Bridges and how she turned her experience of a degrading school into a kids book. my secondary sources : ‘The Colored Woman’s Office, A Voice from of South’- Anna Julia Cooper ‘They Were Her Property, White Women as Slave Owners’ – Stephanie – Jones Rogers You must quote from your sources. Cite using Chicago style footnotes Explain your project. List your 4 sources and explain which are primary and which are secondary. Who will you be comparing? How do you plan to compare them: What elements or aspects of the two decades do you plan to look at?
Why did you pick this particular topic and these particular women? Compare and contrast: what do they have in common? How are they different? What can you tell about them by analyzing your primary sources? Analysis: What do the commonalities and differences tell us about the time periods during which these women lived? Questions to consider: What was happening with women in general during your chosen time periods? How were these women significant? And how was their significance restrained or enhanced by the prevailing view of women at the time? Were there external influences at play (immigration/labor/suffrage campaigns/wars/availability of materials/etc)? Cite specific examples from the content pages.
What have you learned from this project? Outline :So when I begin my introduction ill start with an
1. Overview of her Harriet Tubman and Ruby Bridges life
2. Dicuss the differences and hisctorical contexts in their separate decades
3. And analyze the commonalities and differences throughout the history of those decades
and how it has impacted and represented changes/ transformations/ traditions to present
day
4. Then get into their experiences & Actions
5. Harriet Tubman’s challenge of escaping slavery, underground railroad activities
6. Ruby Bridges challenge of integrating into public schools in the South, facing hostility
and segregation
7. Which leads to action , Harriet Tubman leading enslaved people to freedom and her role
in the abolitionist movement. Ruby Bridges being the first African American child to
attend an all white elementary school in the South, and enduring threats and
discrimination
discuss how their lives are different from each others because of the events of the women’s movement and how they are the same (women’s movement notoriously leaving black women out of the equation in many ways).