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I am researching The Help by Kathryn Stockett. The help is about what it was like to live as a black house-maid in the 1950s. I chose this artifact to learn more about the civil rights movements and what is needed to be done to stop discrimination for future generations, so that I can do my part in opening the minds to those who discriminate against others simply for being different. Close minded people may have their minds made up on how they feel towards a situation but to educate them on a different perspective may at least give them an understanding that you shouldn't discriminate against anyone because they are different in some way.

Research Paper #1
For my first paper, I am researching what life was like for Black Americans in the 50s and 60s. I am using different civil rights movements as a source to learn about the different struggles they went through to earn equality in America. Taken from his book Black Liberations and Socialism, Ahmed Shawki lists some important events from the civil rights movements, intent they hoped to accomplish and the aftermath that occurred in the chapter[| Root of Racism]