User:MThomas45512/Evaluate an Article

Which article are you evaluating?
(Freedom Summer)

Why you have chosen this article to evaluate?
(I chose this article to evaluate because in our course we started discussing the Civil Rights Movement and important details about Freedom Summer. This matters because in order to bring about real change now in the present, we can look at what actions were taken in the face of historical oppression. My preliminary impression was that this article was very detailed and that there were aspects of Freedom Summer that I had not learned about prior to this.)

Evaluate the article
(The lead of this article includes an introductory sentence that concisely and clearly describes the article's topic about the Freedom Summer movement. The lead also includes a brief description of Freedom Summer and the drive to register Black people to vote in response to voting restrictions; furthermore, the lead includes a brief description of the article's major sections. The article's content is relevant to the topic. After looking at the history of the article's edits, I can affirm that the content of the article is up-to-date. The content of the article does address topics related to the Black community, who have been historically underrepresented in our country. The article is neutral and there is no perceivable use of bias; rather the article provides the truth of how Black people were discriminated against, oppressed, and disenfranchised during this time period. There are a significant number of citations to reliable secondary sources. Some of the sources are current, while others are a bit older. The sources are written by a diverse spectrum of authors and they include historically marginalized individuals when possible. I checked a few of the links and they do indeed work. The article is well-written, concise, clear, and easy to read. I did not come across any grammatical or spelling errors. The article is also well-organized into sections that reflect the different aspects of Freedom Summer. The article does include enhancing images; however there are only a few images that span across the whole article. On the other hand, the images are well-captioned. On the article's talk page, I see that this article is part of many different WikiProjects. For example, it is rated as Start-class, Top-importance on WikiProject African diaspora. Looking through this article gives me more knowledge to build off of the foundational information we learned about Freedom Summer in class. The article is very detailed, unbiased, and is cited accordingly. The article can be improved by adding more images; having more images can be a benefit to all readers, especially readers who learn better visually. The article is complete and well-developed.)