HIS 100 Project Template Final Project
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HIS 100 Project Template HIS 100 Project Template
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
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Describe how your assumptions, beliefs, and values influenced your choice of topic.
First, it was a topic I had never heard of. My presumption about the subject before reading it was
that it was about some massacre between slaves and the owners of some of them. After reading
the story told by the survivors and other articles found on the internet, I was clearer about what happened. A story full of a lot of terror and many gaps as well. In this story, I could see problems of segregation, hatred, ambitions, and jealousy between one race and others. My assumptions became a reality that many lived, and few are alive to talk about them. Among my values was not to kill for the sake of it. It was something that bothered me a lot and each time I wanted to know more details about what really happened. When I say that there are gaps in this story, it is because we only have one version of the story and no matter how much I search about the white party who started the massacre that night, I cannot find any information. It can't be that way because that part has been dispersed or someone did it. I don't know and that is one of the parts that most attracts my attention about this event or topic.
2.
Discuss the significance of your historical research question in relation to your current event.
After having read what happened that night of May 31, 1921, I wondered how a town so developed and with so much evolution at that time could have emerged from its storm after that attack by the whites. If they continued to be the source of income as abundant as they were, how would all this affect the town if the families stayed there to recover what was theirs if there were more influential people who helped it rise and become the city or town it used to be?
3.
Explain how you used sources to finalize your research question.
My resources were used to learn a little more about the atrocious acts that night, how the entire
infrastructure of a town stopped being so important and fell from one moment to the next with families leaving the town since they had nothing else to do in This is because of the bad condition it was left in. Leaving families in ruins, dead, or divided. The unexpected bleeding was caused by a lot of white people because of their ideals and their jealousy. That of not wanting to progress and not letting others do so even if they are part of another race.
Part 2: Building Context to Address Questions
1.
Describe the context of your historical event that influenced your current event.
Here it all started when a young black man shared an elevator in a building. The young man named Dick Rowland at that time was accused of having molested Sarah Page, a white woman whom he accused, and he himself was arrested and treated differently since he was black. This caused the fury of the whites who sought "justice" by letting all their fury fall on innocent people
by burning and looting the entire small town of Greenwood where the area of black people was. Destroying their properties by burning them and killing the people who lived there.
4.
Explain the historical figure or group’s motivation to participate in your historical event
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In this story the figures are Sara Parker who accuses young Dick Rowland, in addition to the mob 1
of whites who burned and looted the small town of Greenwood, we also have the survivors of that night Viola Ford (survivor) Huges Van Hellis (survivor) Lessie Benningfield (survivor).
Part 3: Examining How Bias Impacts Narrative
1.
Describe a narrative you identified while researching the history of your historical event.
The sources are interviews of people who survived that night and tell the same story about surviving the deadly night of the Tulsa massacre. It all begins with a false accusation by a young black man who has an altercation with a white woman inside an elevator, also the jealousy that white people had at that time because the black city was prosperous and continues at a good pace, the testimony of other survivors They are equal and those who remain still remember the bloody and horrible night of May 31, 1921.
5.
Articulate how biased perspectives presented in primary and secondary sources influence what is known or unknown about history.
The only bias I could find from my primary sources is that the Government took over 100 years to compensate these survivors and the case was dismissed with prejudice, meaning it can’t be refiled (Gilyard 2023) and any of the white people who participated on that riot was never charged after destroying a city and kill more than 300 African American.
6.
Identify the perspectives that you think are missing from your historical event’s narrative.
Something that I do wonder about this whole case is why the young man runs out of the elevator, although it is known that it is out of fear, he went inside that elevator and went to that building because he didn't try to defend himself at the time. of Sarah's accusation and other details that are missing is why no one from the mob was arrested and all the responsibility was placed on the black people. Why did it take more than 100 years to restore these people after almost a short time left and why this event was to reveal if there was still more to investigate or to hear?
Part 4: Connecting the Past With the Present
1.
Explain how researching its historical roots helped improve your understanding of your current event.
As you already know, Greenwood was known as the "Wall Street OF Negros" due to its good financial status, in addition to being rich in oil and petroleum, it was very rich in everything from businesses to companies that moved to this place, so much so that for that time many black people emigrated to this town looking for a better future. This makes me understand that everything that happened here was due to the anger of white people at seeing that the black race was generating money and gaining positions within the business industry. They required any
excuse to stop the momentum with which these people had been advancing and gradually positioning themselves within other societies. In other words, this whole event occurred due to the jealousy that existed between them and something that they could not accept at that time when everything was different and where only the white man was the one who had the right to be an educated and professional person.
7.
Articulate how questioning your assumptions, beliefs, and values may benefit you as an individual.
This benefits me since I am not left with a single piece of information, but I can review other forms of information and not only what I think is valid, but I also must give other sources the opportunity to explain and show the truth. Another side of the coin, what you think is not always correct, there is
always something that contradicts you, and learn to be discreet in what you think and know.
8.
Discuss how being a more historically informed citizen may help you understand contemporary issues.
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An anecdote about something that happened to me recently was while I was at a car dealership doing maintenance on my car in the waiting room, I met a black person, I asked him the question
about the Tulsa Massacre, and he answered me that he had heard something but didn't know and asked me if I could explain it to him. When I finished telling him and showing him articles, he
thanked me because I, who am Latino, knew something about his history that he didn't know. This as a person left me satisfied and made me see myself as an educated person with an understanding of stories despite being a retired military man and being an accountant for a company, it gave me the greatest satisfaction I could have that day. That is why I believe that knowing a little more about other people's stories makes you look more prepared for any situation and be able to answer questions that they themselves are not aware of. The other person's gaze when you are talking about the story says More than your mouth can say. And even more so when they thank you that you can understand their stories and be able to write them with such confidence. The advantage you have over that person is more than you imagine. In addition, knowing about stories makes you a person with whom it is interesting to talk since you fill others with knowledge. That's how I feel when I talk to a person who knows about history or some other topic.
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