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1 HIS 100 Project Template(1)HIS 100 Project Template Part 1: Creating a Research Question 1.
Describe how your assumptions, beliefs, and values influenced your choice of topic. •
The Tulsa Massacre is relevant to my beliefs because race issues still exist, and I still see, hear, and have experienced racism. Racism has always been an issue with my family and our beliefs. Although we try to give everyone, no matter the color of their skin, the same love and respect, it is not always returned. I believe if racism did not exist this Massacre would have never occurred. I also believe if Racism and inequality were not an issue the world, we live in would be different. My belief is also that the judicial system and the bias treatment of Black people has not improved at all in the pass one hundred years since the Massacre occurred. 2.
Discuss the significance of your historical research question in relation to your current event. •
The Tulsa Massacre is relevant because racism and inequality is still an ongoing issue today. There is still racism and inequality, in the judicial system, the school system, and even in the financial world and Job market. 3.
Explain how you used sources to finalize your research question. •
Upon researching for adequate research question, I utilized my sources my comparing the sources with each other. I compares primary sources against other primary sources as well as compared them with the secondary sources I was able to utilize to form my research question. I also compared my historical sources with my current sources. Part 2: Building Context to Address Questions 1.
Describe the context of your historical event that influenced your current event. •
The historical context surrounding The Tulsa Massacre would be both social and culture. This event which began on May 31, 1921, and destroyed many Black people’s
homes, lives, and livelihood, was a racially motivated event, and racism would fall in the social context and the culture context. This context is a great influence on the current events because the same things are still happening to this day where events are racially motivated and often still destroy livelihood, and lives. 2.
Describe a historical f
igure or group’s participation in your historical event.
•
John Williams, the first black to own a car, and was the towns mechanics for the blacks, he was one of the many men defending the blacks from the whites while this massacre was taking place (Ellsworth, 1992). 3.
Explain the historical figure or group’s
motivation to participate in your historical event. •
John participated in the event because he wanted to defend his community of Greenwood and he wanted to protect his family. John had multiple reasons for wanting to defend Greenwood. First Greenwood was home to him and his family, they lived and worked in the Greenwood community, Him and his wife owned the Theatre, Mechanic shop, as well as a store, So John was motivated to protect his assets and his family (Ellsworth, 1992). Part 3: Examining How Bias Impacts Narrative 1.
Describe a narrative you identified while researching the history of your historical event. •
The narrative that made me more understandable of the historical event was that of my primary source, which was an actual witness of the event. This influenced me because the survivor made me feel like I was there at the time of the historical event because of the details of their encounter, for example the smells, sounds, their thoughts at the time
2 of the event. The chosen narrative helps me better understand my historical research question because, from the perspective of the sources that was chosen it seems that the judicial system has not made much change since the time of the historical event, because nobody has been held accountable for the events. It makes me realize how there is still a racial bias within the judicial system because still today the outcome of some situations is not treated equally among the different races (Kelly, 2018). 2.
Articulate how biased perspectives presented in primary and secondary sources influence what is known or unknown about history. •
biased perspectives influence what is known about the events is that there has been an unfair advantage within the way whites are treated in the judicial system, and the way Black people ae treated. Biased perspective influence what is unknown because opinions are formed by what is known. If we are able to find out the unknow, I believe that part of the bias perspectives may change 3.
Identify the perspectives that you think are missing from your historical event’s
narrative. •
If my historical event was told from a missing perspective, they may say that we have a fair judicial system, and they may feel like the way that things happened was fair and that they had every right to protect their people. Part 4: Connecting the Past With the Present 1.
Explain how researching its historical roots helped improve your understanding of your current event. •
Exploring my research question improved my understanding of my current event by opening my eyes to how not much has improved in the past hundred years with the judicial system. There is still a lot of inequality within the system. It helps me also to understand he bias in when whites are arrested for alleged crime they are treated differently from when Black people are arrested in alleged crimes. There have been times where white people has been arrested without harm even after resisting arrest, whereas Black people cannot be resisting arrest and are harm or even killed while being detained (Holmes, 2016). 2.
Articulate how questioning your assumptions, beliefs, and values may benefit you as an individual. •
Questioning my assumptions, beliefs, and values may benefit me as an individual because it will make think about my assumptions, beliefs, and values. If question what I believe and want to know why I believe I, it will make me want to research where that particular belief came from. After researching where I came to that belief, I may change my belief based on the evidence that was found. Questioning you own assumptions, beliefs, and values, could also help you in the way you conduct your life, because sometimes what you assume may not even be true, and you could be living a certain way because of an assumption that is not even a correct assumption. It also may change the way I treat people or how I allow people to treat me. When you grow up with certain types of beliefs and values, you base your whole life on those values growing up, but once you start questioning those beliefs and values you may find that you what you grew up believing and valuing may have had a negative impact on your life, and them beliefs and values may not beneficial to you anymore. 3.
Discuss how being a more historically informed citizen may help you understand contemporary issues. •
Being a more historically informed citizen may help understand contemporary issues,
3 because knowing what happened in the past with certain situations can help a citizen be prepared to handle a situation if it was to happen again. by being historically informed you can avoid making the mistakes that were made in the past, and you could also produce new strategies to help improve the situation. It is also good for citizens to historically informed in their family history as well, knowing family history like what type of illness, or diseases, or genetics run through your family will help you to navigate your own life and practice measures to help either prevent or reduce the threats of hereditary illness. Also know your own family history will help you to understand why a person carries themselves the way they do or the reason they have a strong opinion on certain current topics or events.
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4 Works Cited Ellsworth, S. (1992). Death in a Promised Land: The Tulsa Race Riot of 1921.
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Holmes, S. (2016). Resisting Arrest and Racism.
Curators of the University of Missouri. Retrieved from https://renapply.web.unc.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/14120/2017/08/2017-RESISTING-
ARREST-AND-RACISM-THE-CRIME-OF-DISRESPECT-Scott-Holmes.pdf Kelly, M. L. (2018, May 31). Meet The Last Surviving Witness To The Tulsa Race Riot of 1921.
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