English 263 - Truth Seekers (Neu): Start your Research Here

Tips for Researching your Person

• Be sure to make a note of the names and dates of major events that relate to their challenge to the status quo. These are important facts for your speech and important key words you can use to refine your research.

Example: If I were discussing Rosa Parks, I would make sure to include the Montgomery Bus Boycott of 1955.

• Note the names of other people and/or organizations that your person people worked for and laws and established practices that that your person/people worked to change .

Example: Rosa Parks worked with several important organizations, including the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP), the Southern Christian Leadership Conference (SCLC). I would note that she was fighting Jim Crow laws (laws that enforced racial segregation in the South) and that her work helped to lead to the Civil Rights Act of 1964 and the Voting Rights Act of 1965.