Richard / Research Project/ Topics for Research Grade 10
Grade 10 Research Novel Related Issues in Black Boy for Research

Books:
There will be a cart of books in the WHHS Library with books appropriate to the topics, for the duration of the assignment.

Internet:
Gale Student Resource Center: http://infotrac.galegroup.com/itweb/cinc48953 You will need to enter the password which is: cinc48953.

1. Jim Crow in the South
Jim Crow and Racism: http://www.ferris.edu/news/jimcrow/menu.htm

2. The impact of World War I on the Southern economy
The Great Migration: http://www.encyclopedia.chicagohistory.org/pages/545.html

3. The major differences between plantations before the Civil War and those that still existed in the twentieth century
Plantation in S. Carolina: http://www.draytonhall.org/about/mission/
Cotton plantation: http://www.lattaplantation.org/
Mt. Vernon Plantation: http://www.mountvernon.org/

4. Sharecropping/ discuss the analogy and determine if there was fairness between economic slavery and sharecropping.
Reconstruction and Sharecropping: http://afroamhistory.about.com/cs/reconstruction/a/reconstruction.htm

5. Research H/L. Mencken. Why did many Southerners dislike him?
Gale Student Resource Center: http://infotrac.galegroup.com/itweb/cinc48953 You will need to enter the password which is: cinc48953. Search for “H.L. Mencken.”

6. What is the image of African American culture today and how has it changed over the last fifty years?
Statistics About Education the Last 50 Years: http://www.census.gov/Press-Release/www/2004/CB04-FF03se.pdf
Racial Profiling: http://www.aclu.org/racialjustice/index.html

7. Discrimination in the South
Racism and Jim Crow in the South: http://www.ferris.edu/news/jimcrow/menu.htm
Black Codes: http://afroamhistory.about.com/od/blackcodes/a/blackcodes1865.htm

8. Discrimination in the North versus the South
Discrimination in Chicago: http://www.loc.gov/exhibits/african/afam011.html
The Great Migration: disappointments: http://www.museum.state.il.us/exhibits/athome/1890/voices/living/-activity.htm
Economy in South: http://www.alabamamoments.state.al.us/sec47det.html

9. Discuss the lack of educational opportunities for black Southerners
Separate But Not Equal: http://www.americanhistory.si.edu/brown/index.html

10. McCarthyism and the effect on Richard Wright
Gale Student Resource Center: http://infotrac.galegroup.com/itweb/cinc48953 You will need to enter the password which is: cinc48953. Search for “Richard Wright” AND communism.

11. Reasons communism was destroyed
Gale Student Resource Center: http://infotrac.galegroup.com/itweb/cinc48953 You will need to enter the password which is: cinc48953. Search for communism AND failure.

12. Race and class in the study of international politics

Gale Student Resource Center: http://infotrac.galegroup.com/itweb/cinc48953 You will need to enter the password which is: cinc48953. Search for race AND class.

13. Equal opportunities in employment:
Affirmative Action: http://www.factmonster.com/spot/affirmative1.html

14. Civil Rights and its effect on the African American way of life.

Civil Rights Resource Page: links to web sites on many Civil Rights topics: http://www.multcolib.org/homework/civilrights/

15. Research the basic principles of Marxism
Gale Student Resource Center: http://infotrac.galegroup.com/itweb/cinc48953 You will need to enter the password which is: cinc48953. Search for “communism” and articles on Karl Marx.

World Book Online : Go to Infohio, click on Grades 9-12, then click “World Book Advanced.” User Name: think, and Password: infohio. http://www.infohio.org. Search for “communism.”

16. Equal opportunity in education
Civil Rights Era and Desegregation: http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/aaohtml/exhibit/aopart9.html

17. American Communism from 1920 to 1945. How was the growth of the Communist Party in the United States made easier by the mood of the country during the Great Depression years.
Communism and the Unemployed: http://depts.washington.edu/labhist/cpproject/black.htm
Communism in the U.S.: http://www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk/USAcommunist.htm

18. Research Communism in the labor movement and its efforts to achieve racial injustice.
Communism and the 1930s and 40s: http://depts.washington.edu/labhist/cpproject/pinckney.htm

19. The impact of Religion on Southern Blacks
African American Religion: http://www.digitalhistory.uh.edu/reconstruction/section2/section2_church.html
Reconstruction and Role of the Black Church: http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/aaohtml/exhibit/aopart5b.html

20. Klu Klux Klan in the South Impact on the African American Family
Brief history of Ku Klux Klan: http://www.pbs.org/wnet/jimcrow/stories_org_kkk.html
Civil Rights Resource Page: links to web sites on many Civil Rights topics including Ku Klux Klan: http://www.multcolib.org/homework/civilrights/

21. The Harlem Renaissance and the impact on African American Recognition
Harlem Renaissance: http://www.levity.com/corduroy/harlem.htm
Harlem Renaissance: a study guide. http://www.csustan.edu/english/reuben/pal/chap9/chap9.html