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Course Description
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"This seminar explores the mass migration of southern African Americans from 1915 to 1975 and examines the resulting transformation of urban black communities in the North and West. We will investigate and compare systems of social control across the twentieth-century United States and consider the myriad and sometimes contrasting ways that African Americans and their allies resisted these systems.." --Bulletin.
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Checklist for Locating Sources
- Find a topic for which you have a keen interest or passion.
- Do some background reading noting any important names, dates, or resources.
- Go to the library catalog to locate books (print and online books) and to the library databases to locate articles in electronic journals. These can help point to primary sources.
- Search for books/articles/documents mentioned in the books and articles you have located.
- Go to primary source databases and search (some of these might require extra patience and time).
- Leave yourself enough time to identify useful primary sources and to locate and acquire these.
- Schedule a library consultation with Marietta Frank (marietta@pitt.edu), Catherine Baldwin (cab137@pitt.edu), or Kim Bailey (hanold@pitt.edu).
