2) This source is from the US National Archives, Records of the House of Representatives. What I understand of the record hierarchy, it's part of a group of petitions referred to the Committee on the Judiciary during the 45th Congress in 1878. The format of this as a petition and its location in the records of Congress suggests that Douglass and his son used these channels to advocate for suffrage. This conclusion might help me name a method of his involvement, government petitions. The fact that this is from his son and not him complicates this conclusion, but with better context, I might understand the relationship between Sr. activism and involvement and Jr. The new autobiography of Douglass by David W. Blight, Frederick Douglass: Prophet of Freedom, may help resolve this.

3) "Petition for Woman Suffrage from Frederick Douglass Jr. and Other Residents of the District of Columbia, 1878," Records of the U.S. House of Representatives, 1789 - 2011, National Archives Building, Washington, DC.

Task 1 - Share one of the primary sources you think you will use to answer your research question. Make sure this has a small descriptor and a link to the source so we can view.

Task 2 - In 150 words, explain;

Task 3 - Generate a citation in Chicago Style identifying your source. You can reuse this when you develop footnotes for your the essay.

Evaluate at least one peer's post in relation to their research question. 

2) This source is from the US National Archives Catalog, Herbert Hoover Pages.  I can conclude that this source examines how Helen Keller wrote a letter to president Hoover to acknowledge her foundation and to spread awareness about it.  Hellen believes a visit by the President would bring attention to the project.  She wanted Hoover to spread light through these people who have disabilities because it can be a dark time for them, but with a well known figure, they may believe in hope.  With his help and his light, Helen believed that they can help those with hearing and visual disabilities with more resources, as in talking books for those with visual impairments.  This may help answer my research question to further prove her activism with those who have visual and hearing disabilities and that she really cared so much about her work.  She cared so much that she needed to network with well known figures to get her work out in the world and by doing this she was able to bring awareness to her foundation to prove that this is a real issue.  The context I would need to know is her relationship with the president and their connection if they were friends before or etc.  Also If she reached out to the president during that time, did she reach out to other well known people to advocate her work for those with disabilities. 
 

3) "Letter from Helen Keller to President Herbert Hoover, 2/5/1933," Herbert Hoover Papers, 1913-1964, National Archives Building, Washington, DC.

3) Kratz, J. 2018. Notorious RBG at the National Archives. N.p.: National Archives. Civil Rights, National Archives History, News And Events.
https://prologue.blogs.archives.gov/2018/12/13/notorious-rbg-at-the-national-archives/

2.) This source comes from the archive The First Fifty Years of Relief Society: Key Documents in Latter-day Saint Women's History. This source was recorded and signed by members of the Latter-day Saint women’s charity group, the Relief Society, in a meeting on January 6th, 1870 in Salt Lake City, Utah. The resolutions passed by the Society responded to the 1870 Cullum Bill which aimed to criminalize plural marriage. The resolutions, passed in defense of plural marriage, criticized Congress for attempting to uproot Mormon’s way of life and violate their civil liberties. The source shows that the leading society for women, within the Latter-day Saints community, was in strong support of plural marriage. Contrary to anti-Mormon reasoning, some women actually experiencing plural marriage were in support of it. It is important to note that the Relief Society was established by the first Mormon prophet Joseph Smith and several women including his first wife, Emma Smith, and his plural wife Eliza R. Snow, both of whom served as the first and second presidents of the Relief Society, respectively. The link to Joseph Smith and plural marriage may have made the Society’s enthusiasm to defend plural marriage particularly strong.

3.)“Minutes of a Ladies Mass Meeting,” Jan. 6, 1870; Fifteenth Ward, Salt Lake Stake, Relief Society Minutes and Records, 1868–1968, vol. 1, 1868–1873, pp. 139–142, CHL (LR 2848 14).

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2) This source is from the Pacifica Radio Archives. From this interview, I can conclude that Dolores Huerta, Vice President of the United Farm Workers (UFW), contributed to California's farmworkers’ rights. Huerta discusses that the UFW was the first union that had success in getting recognition as an actual union. Because of the huge boycotts that were led, Huerta and the union gained 8 union contracts, mostly wine companies. With the union contracts, workers had access to toilets, fresh and cold water, protective equipment, resting periods, a secure job unless there was a fair reason for being fired, and much more. This helps answer my research question because Huerta knew workers deserved better conditions as they worked very hard, and how unfair it was that farmworkers were not treated humanely by the growers. She worked tirelessly until union contacts were given to the farmworkers. The context that I need to know is that farmworkers were not covered under the punitive section and were able to be a part of secondary boycotts. With Secondary boycotts, the UFW could ask workers handling the products of the growers not to handle them.

3) “Dolores Huerta: Vice President of the United Farm Workers / interviewed by Maria Huffman.” February 23, 1968,  From the Internet Archive, Pacifica Radio Archives. https://archive.org/details/pacifica_radio_archives-BB3554 (accessed Feb. 18, 2021).

2. This source was pulled from the Digital Public Library of America and evidence was pointing to the fact that the mass majority of Braceros were men who cam up to work the farms and returned home once the harvest season was over. There is proof of Mexican women came up to the states to assist the men who were working by bookkeeping, managing the payroll, and doing more of the behind paperwork aspect of the job. The source also showed that men usually spent their time in the states in labor camps. There are exceptions with the fact that some came up with entire families which stayed at the farm owner's house or somewhere close. This source is crucial to my project because there are lots of pictures of the Braceros working, receiving paychecks, and even the area in which they lived in. There are also newspaper articles to show what the rest of the states saw when these Mexicans came up to work. Along with some background information about these pictures there are also specific dates and locations in which these pictures were taken. The evidence not well supported in this source is what specifically the women did if they were up, not real pictures of them but there was hints towards somethings they had done. I also need to look for the documents on specifics on the Bracero Program.

3.  Abbott, Franky. “Mexican Labor and World War II: The Bracero Program.” Mexican Labor and World War II: The Bracero Program | DPLA. Accessed May 8, 2021. https://dp.la/primary-source-sets/mexican-labor-and-world-war-ii-the-bracero-program. 

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2) This source is from the LDS Church History Library archive and is a collection of several images (one for each page of Jane's autobiography). From it, I can conclude that Jane’s sense of faith on her journey to Nauvoo often centered around charismatic gifts, particularly faith healing. In one instance, Jane's group healed a sick child, a task that church elders had previously failed at, indicating that Jane had an egalitarian view of faith healing. Jane also does not shy away from the racism she experienced on her travels, though she is careful to incorporate it into her religious testimony. Finally, from Jane’s recounting, I can conclude that she sought to depict Joseph Smith as a welcoming, relatively non-racist figure. This source helps answer my research question because it exemplifies Jane's attempts to exert influence through her writing, which implicitly expressed views that ran counter to prevailing ideas about race, gender and hierarchy in the church at the turn of the century. But to understand how Jane exerted influence through her writing, I need context for what those prevailing ideas were. Some sources that have been particularly helpful for contextualizing Jane's autobiography are those that examine white supremacy in the turn of the century LDS church, and the monopolization of charismatic gifts, such as faith healing, by a male church hierarchy. In light of those sources, the subtly subversive nature of Jane's writing is all the more apparent.

3) James, Jane Manning. Jane Manning James autobiography, circa 1902. Manuscript. Salt Lake City. From LDS Church History Catalog. https://catalog.churchofjesuschrist.org/assets?id=87811103-6a8f-496e-a68f-590604cdf5bc&crate=0&index=0 (accessed May 7, 2021)

This source is from the University of Nebraska. Elkins points out that feminists were completely against the idea of advocating for equality amongst men and women in sports. They thought their time and energy would be better spent advocating for issues such as equal pay. In the past female athletes never concerned themselves with politics or advocating for equal rights, until Billie Jean King took on a role as a feminist. With her platform, she advocated for issues such as equal pay amongst female and male tennis players. Her willingness to go against the social norm, and advocate for equality, filled the gap between feminist and female athletes. Understanding the history of the women's movement involvement in sports made me come to the conclusion that just being a woman and participating isn’t enough to warrant change. This article helped me understand how important athletes such as Billie Jean King are in invoking change, and the ways in which colleges and Universities try to demolish or disregard Title IX. Context I would need to understand this source is a general understanding of what Title IX is; how it protects women not just athletes. 

(-Reiko Flores-Wong)
Elkins, Hollis. "Time for a Change: Women's Athletics and the Women's Movement." Frontiers: A Journal of Women Studies 3, no. 1 (1978): 22-25. Accessed April 14, 2021. doi:10.2307/3345986.

2) This source is from the University Archives at the University of North Carolina at Greensboro. The source that I used is a letter that was written from a nurse that was stationed in Oahu, HI during the attack on Pearl harbor. In the letter she goes on to explain what happened and what she was doing that morning before the attack. She stated how everyone thought they were safe in Hawaii but it was quite the opposite. Some conclusions that I was able to see from this letter is just how completely in shock everyone was an dhow fast paced they had to move in order to work their hardest to save lives. In the end of her letter, it talks about how gloomy and quite everything is but they are trying not to let it get the best of them. I think that this can help me with my research because it really shows how immediate everyone's reactions had to be while trying to remain calm. This also shows a small piece of what everyone who was involved went through. Not only trying to survive this heartbreak but also the family members and friends back home who might not have heard anything for a while. For Ella, the writer of this letter, this was the first time she was able to reach out in a week. Some general context that you should know for this piece is that on December 7th, 1941, Japan attacked America right in the heart of their preparation for war. Not only were soldiers harmed in this time but also civilians, both children and adults.
3) Koelsch, BA. “75 Years Ago: ‘Pearl Harbor Letter’ from Ella.” Spartan Stories, 2016, uncghistory.blogspot.com/2016/12/75-years-ago-pearl-harbor-letter-from.html. 
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2) This source is from the archives of the Library of Congress. This article containing an excerpt from Sojourner Truth's speech was released just a few days following her delivery, printed on June 21, 1851. This transcription of the speech by Marius Robinson is the first accurate publication of Truth's speech.  Truth was deeply connected to the anti-slavery movement due to her experience in the system, allowing her role as an activist for black women and uniting these activist groups. This source helps me to grasp tangible examples of the intersectionality Truth presented, as well as the public support for women's rights and Truth by the anti-slavery movement. I need to research the other initial presentations of the speech and how they differ from the transcription in the Anti-slavery Bugle.

3)  Humanities, National Endowment for the. “Anti-Slavery Bugle. [Volume] (New-Lisbon, Ohio) 1845-1861, June 21, 1851, Page 160, Image 4.” News about Chronicling America RSS. Ohio American Antislavery Society, n.d. https://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn83035487/1851-06-21/ed-1/seq-4/.