English 263 - Challenging the Status Quo Research Project: Start your Research Here

Tips for Researching your Person/People

• 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 Martin Luther King, I would make sure to include the Montgomery Bus Boycott of 1955, the March on Washington in 1963 and "Bloody Sunday"  in Selma, Alabama in 1965.

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

Example: For MLK, an important organization he was a part of was the Southern Christian Leadership Conference (SCLC). I would note that he was fighting Jim Crow laws (laws that enforced racial segregation in the South) and that his work helped to lead to the Civil Rights Act of 1964 and the Voting Rights Act of 1965.