User:AAbiad/Choose an Article

I’m so sorry, I’m not entirely sure what guidelines we should follow for choosing a topic! But here are some ideas.

1. Lung Center of the Philippines: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lung_Center_of_the_Philippines Article says “needs to be updated” but several different news stories are linked. Mentions that there was a fire where 11 lives were claimed and 9 were missing - seems ripe for ghosts.

2. Brush Point, Illinois: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brush_Point,_Illinois I’m not sure that I would use this town in particular but it showed up under the category “Ghost Towns.” There are perhaps too few sources here to properly build up an article, but it would be interesting to consider the type of ghosts associated with ghost towns.

3. Kabyai Creek massacre: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kabyai_Creek_massacre The poem “Do You Remember” got me thinking more about massacres, which often come with conflicting stories. If ghosts are born from the discrepancy between lived experience and official history, massacres are full of ghosts. This page doesn’t have much content, but it has a few different sources, including links to articles about the people of the Winnemem Wintu tribe, who are raising awareness about this massaacre in the present day. That could be a source for more investigation.

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3/2/2020

Here are some Wikipedia pages I am thinking of working on:


 * 1) Elizabeth Prince Rice (1900-1995): No existing article on Wikipedia, but the Schlesinger Library has two cartons of her documents. She was a medical social worker who began the social work program at Yale and became the first professional social worker to be appointed to the Harvard School of Public Health. According to the Schlesinger Library Finding Aid, her boxes include her Guide for Referral of Families to Community Health and Social Agencies as well as various speeches and some correspondence.
 * 2) Ana Livia Cordero (1931-1992): Dr. Cordero has a page on Wikipedia, but it is very brief: Ana Livia Cordero It contains a paragraph about her career and a couple of sentences about her early life, but the Schlesinger Library seems to have much more material from and about her: 11 file boxes and 1 carton. Cordero was a Puerto Rican physician and political activist who worked ran a women's health clinic in Ghana and served as W.E.B. Du Bois's physician until his death; after returning to Puerto Rico, she continued to work as a doctor and advocated for Puerto Rican independence. I think I could add substantially more to her Wikipedia page about the later years of her life (the last event it includes is from 1978) as well as more details about her writings and her group, the Pilot Project (which is currently mentioned but not named in Wikipedia).
 * 3) Beulah Hester: I'm currently unable to access HOLLIS for Archival Discovery, but Beulah Hester does not have a Wikipedia page. She was part of the Black Women Oral History Project; she was a social worker who was dedicated to serving the elderly.