Talk:Unita Blackwell

Sourcing
I look forward to seeing this article expanded! Blackwell seems very interesting! A few notes on sources:


 * The "Early life and marriage" and "Civil rights activism" sections of this article are sourced to an autobiography - that is a primary source. This information needs to be verified using a secondary source. Autobiographies are unreliable sources of information - people often choose to represent themselves in specific ways that are not always truthful. Autobiographies also do not go through the rigorous system of fact-checking and peer review that we demand of reliable sources. Autobiographies are useful for anecdotes, but any information taken from an autobiography should be noted as such in the article. For an example of a biographical article forced to deal with these difficult issues, see Mary Martha Sherwood. The body of the article announces the use of autobiographical material and the bibliography alerts the reader to deficiencies in the secondary sources. Awadewit (talk) 04:50, 27 April 2008 (UTC)


 * This source is an advertisement from the publisher. I think a book review would be better. Perhaps something like this? - I changed that reference.

I hope my copy editing efforts were helpful. Awadewit (talk) 04:50, 27 April 2008 (UTC)
 * Thank you very much for all your help on this article. :D -- Chetblong ( talk ) 00:59, 29 April 2008 (UTC)

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This can't be right
In the "Political career and later life" section: "The Mississippi Freedom Democratic Party sent Blackwell and three other delegates to the 1964 Democratic National Convention in New Jersey." There were 68 total delegates (Blackwell and 67 others). I didn't change it because I don't have access to the cited James Haskins book. Fishlandia (talk) 16:55, 21 January 2018 (UTC)
 * I'll look into this when I can find the time, if I don't reply here within a few days or if you find a good source to refute this, just use the template. Thanks for the heads up! &mdash; Coffee  //  have a ☕️ //  beans  // 17:02, 21 January 2018 (UTC)


 * Thank you! There are many sources. I'll ping you. Fishlandia (talk) 18:08, 21 January 2018 (UTC)


 * (<-- neat! thanks), here are two books and an article:
 * Showdown at the 1964 Democratic Convention: Lyndon Johnson, Mississippi and Civil Rights by John C. Skipper, 2012, p. 66
 * Mississippi Writers: Reflections of Childhood and Youth by Dorothy Abbott, 1985, p. 525
 * "A Delegate Situation" by Vern Smith. The Crisis magazine, September 2004, p. 34


 * Another question for when you have time. In the "Early life" section she's called Unita Blackwell and Blackwell, though she wasn't married to Mr. Blackwell yet. Her maiden name was Brown and her parents are named here. Should she be Unita Brown and Brown in this section? Fishlandia (talk) 00:36, 22 January 2018 (UTC)
 * That's just the standard way our encyclopedia mentions the subject of the article even though they were not using their current name at that time. As far as the other issue, I've the amount of delegates and added the three awesome references you found for this article. Thank you very much for your help, we don't get enough people who update civil rights leader's articles around here unfortunately. So I hope you decide to stay around the place! Please don't hesitate to contact me on my user talkpage if you have any questions... or you can always just send me a ping. Hope to see you around! &mdash; Coffee  //  have a ☕️ //  beans  // 03:56, 22 January 2018 (UTC)


 * Thank you again, ! That's nice :) Fishlandia (talk) 09:33, 22 January 2018 (UTC)

Death Location
On the sidebar the has Biloxi, Mississippi, U.S. while the article shows Ocean Springs, Mississippi, so which is it?