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**American Studies Assignment Prompt**
**Task:**
1. Choose a topic within American Studies that interests you and pose a question to explore. For this assignment, the question is: *How did jazz music contribute to the Civil Rights Movement and reflect its broader struggles for justice?*
2. Write a 2-page response that includes:
– Your **main claim**, which answers the question.
– **Sub-claims** that support your main claim.
– The **grounds** (evidence) for your argument.
3. Conduct research using academic sources, compiling the following:
– 4 books
– 4 peer-reviewed journal articles
– 4 archival or primary sources (e.g., from digital archives, library collections).
*Note: Internet sources are allowed only if they come from archives, libraries, or have a .edu or .gov domain.*
4. Incorporate at least 2 books, 2 journal articles, and 2 archival materials in your written response.
5. Use MLA formatting for all citations. Follow these formatting rules:
– Use *italics* for book, journal, and newspaper titles.
– Use **quotations** for journal article titles and news article titles.
– Use *italics* for movie and artwork titles.
**Example Citations:**
– Cruse, Harold. *The Crisis of the Negro Intellectual.* New York: William Morrow & Company, Inc., 1967.
– “Jazz and the Civil Rights Movement,” *The Journal of African American History*, vol. 54, no. 3, 1969, pp. 215-233.
**Deliverables:**
– A 2-page paper answering the research question.
– An annotated bibliography that includes 4 books, 4 journals, and 4 archival/primary sources.
– Ensure all work adheres to academic standards and uses credible sources.
– Here are a list of digital archives you may use for the paper.
DIGITAL ARCHIVES
Digital Collections and Archives Tufts University
https://dl.tufts.edu
DuBois Central University of Mass
http://www.library.umass.edu/spcoll/dubois/
University of Miami Online Archives
https://digitalcollections.library.miami.edu
Digital Collections Beinecke Library, Yale University
https://beinecke.library.yale.edu/digital-collections/digital-collections-beinecke-library
Yale University Library Digital Collections
https://collections.library.yale.edu
University of California Los Angeles Digital Collection
https://digital.library.ucla.edu
University of California Berkely Digital Collections
https://www.lib.berkeley.edu/find/digital-collections
University of California San Diego Digital Collections
https://library.ucsd.edu/dc
DuBois Central University of Massachussets: http://www.library.umass.edu/spcoll/dubois/
FBI Electronic Reading Room (Freedom of Information act)
http://foia.fbi.gov/room.htm
CIA Electronic Reading Room
https://www.cia.gov/readingroom/
Smithsonian Library Digital Collections
https://library.si.edu/collections
Smithsonian-National Museum of American History online:
Melungeon Discovery Group: http://www.chowandiscovery.org/News/News.html
Melungeon.org: http://www.melungeon.org/
Black Film Research online
http://bfro.uchicago.edu/online_resources/ephemera_memorabilia.shtml
New York Public Library for the Performing Arts: http://www.nypl.org/locations/lpa
New York Public Library: http://www.nypl.org/
Cleveland Digital Public Library
Detroit Public Library
https://digitalcollections.detroitpubliclibrary.org/islandora/search?f[0]=mods_location_physicalLocation_ms%3A%22E.
%20Azalia%20Hackley%20Collection%22&sort=mods_identifier_resourceID_s%20asc
Chicago Renaissance Digital Archives
https://www.chipublib.org/chicago-renaissance-digital-collection/
Chicago Public Library
https://www.chipublib.org/digital-collections/
Center for Black Music Research- Columbia College
https://engage.colum.edu/cbmr/home/
Slavery in New York Exhibit
https://www.slaveryinnewyork.org/about_exhibit.htm
African American Digital Initiatives Howard University: http://www.howard.edu/library/assist/guides/Afro-Am_Digital.htm
Library of Congress American Memory: http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/index.html
Documenting the American South UNC Chapel Hill:
http://docsouth.unc.edu/support/about/
Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture:
http://www.nypl.org/locations/schomburg
The African Burial Ground Schomburg Center for Research in Black
Culture: http://legacy.www.nypl.org/research/sc/afb/shell.html
Center for Black Music Research: http://www.colum.edu/cbmr/index.php
Separate Cinema: http://www.separatecinema.com/?gclid=CIazqNOd_5ICFQ5_Hgod92OBxg
American Art from Howard University: http://www.howard.edu/library/Art@Howard/HUCollection/Index.htm
Duke Digital Collections: http://library.duke.edu/digitalcollections/
Yale Beinecke Library DigitalCollections: http://www.library.yale.edu/beinecke/index.html
http://www.library.yale.edu/libraries/digcoll.html
Highlander Research and Education Center: http://www.highlandercenter.org/resources.asp
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