Project Proposal: Civil Rights

[Tiny-Pickles]

I was thinking about creating a digital project that encompasses the important documents or legislation that relate to the Civil Rights movement. I was thinking about creating an interactive timeline of the documents and/or an interactive map that chronically shows the progress of civil rights. All documentation would be from significant events that occurred during the civil rights movement like legislation passed at the federal/state level as well as court cases.

If possible I would like to include some first hand accounts of peoples' experiences during the civil rights movement. (primary sources)

Please let me know what you think and if you could elaborate on this idea more.

Here are some links for some source materials for this project. https://www.ourdocuments.gov/content.php?flash=false&page=milestone http://crdl.usg.edu/?Welcome

I found some primary sources from African American slaves that were still living in the 1930s. Probably could use the source listed below for many of the documents because it is from the library of congress. https://www.loc.gov/collections/slave-narratives-from-the-federal-writers-project-1936-to-1938/about-this-collection/

[sxa585]

Get pranked grace

[sxa585]

Get pranked again grace

[am0eba-byte]

Grace, this project sounds hecking cool. I think it'd be so awesome to get primary sources' accounts of what it was like to live through various civil rights-related times in our country's fudged up history. I think it would be cool to create an interactive map of the U.S. that would show which states made which civil rights laws legal and which ones enforced racist laws throughout different periods in American history, and you could also create clickable points on the map in certain time periods on that would toggle an informative blurb about what happened in that place at that time. This is just a suggestion, but there's a whole bunch of songs from different periods (a lot from the 60's and 70's that I know of) that are about the civil rights movement, so I think it'd be really cool to create music-specific pinpoints in places where a song was written/performed/recorded the first time, and when you click on it the song plays and an informational blurb about the song's background and lyrics could appear!

Here's some civil rights-related songs as an example:

Nina Simone - Mississipi Goddam

Lauryn Hill - Black Rage

Billie Holiday - Strange Fruit

Sam Cooke - A Change is Gonna Come

[N00000DLE]

Hi Grace! I think this project sounds fascinating! It would be really cool to look at a lot of the Civil Rights movement documents and possibly compare them to pre-civil war era documents. I really enjoy history and anything to do with civil or human rights, so I would love to see this project done!

[amw6765]

This project sounds super cool! I necessarily would not wanna work on this topic myself, however, this proposal has the structure and beginnings for a great project. Being able to visualize the timeline of civil rights and its progress throughout the years in the US could help others to see just how long and hard people have been fighting for equality. And as you stated, I would definitely emphasize the key leaders in the civil rights movement and their accomplishments. Great project idea! If selected this will be quite fascinating to see get put together.