Research Paper Assignment: Choose a Movement and Analyze its Historical Significance

The assignment is due.

Your paper will be submitted through Turnitin.

The length of your paper should be words.

Your paper must be typed and include a bibliography with at least academic sources. (books, articles, and sources with authors; not encyclopedias)  

Be sure to include in-text citations from your sources and/or quotes. (e.g.)   (Author’s name, Page number)

One citation must be from a contemporary of that period (an eyewitness/a primary source).

Plagiarized papers will be marked as 

Your paper needs to be well organized, coherent, and well written.  It needs to include an introduction, body, and conclusion.

racism in the American South

anti-Communism in Eastern Europe

women’s rights movement

gay and lesbian liberation movement

anti-Apartheid movement in South Africa 

Do not attempt to cover the entire chronological period.  You will select a more narrow time period and subtopic for analysis.

For this paper, you will first provide some historical background for your topic and then explain the problems/challenges the particular group in question faced.  You will need to identify the specific demands and aspirations the group had; and whether or not the desired goals were achieved within the indicated time frame. Also, discuss the importance of this particular movement and its historical legacy based on your own opinion. Finally, include an image that you believe symbolizes some aspect of the movement