TH171 Text Analysis for Actors
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TH 171 Text Analysis For Actors
Research Guide for Raisin in the Sun Oral Report
1. Cornish Library Resources
- TH171 Bibliography. These are suggested titles. Search the Cornish Library catalog for other titles.
2. Class Reserves
- Go the Class Reserves search page and type in "th 171" to find your list of Class Reserve titles. You can ask for these at the circulation desk.
3. Web Resources
Before going on Google or Yahoo try some of these sites to help anchor your search. Get ideas for names, places, events to search later on Google.
- Decades Resources
- 100 Years of New York City. From the NY Times.
- American Cultural History: The Twentieth Century. From Kingwood College Library.
- PBS Timeline : Civil Rights Era (1954 - 1971)
- The History Channel
- African American History - Library of Congress
- The African American Mosaic Resource Guide for the Study of Black History & Culture.
- American Memory Project
- The Postwar United States, 1945-1968, historical overview
- Photographs from 1935-1945 Pre-1950 documentary images: Great Depression, farm mechanization, the Dust Bowl and the mobilization effort for World War II.
- Chicago History
- Encyclopedia of Chicago Chicago Historical Society
- African American History Tour
- Bronzeville Cultural Links (African American neighborhood in Chicago's south side. Concentration of creative activities similar to Harlem in N.Y.)
- Bronzeville Digital Stories Illinois Institute of Technology history project.
- Chicago Blues Covers 1950's.
- Jazz Institute of Chicago (Click on their "Journal" section)
- Jazz Age Chicago Pre- 1950's jazz scene.
- Fair Housing History
- Hansberry v. Lee Summary of Supreme Court cast filed by Carl Hansberry, Lorraine's father, re. racial covenants in neighborhoods.
- The History Behind Hansberry v. Lee by Allen R. Kemp, U.C. Davis Law Review, v.20 no.3 pp481-499.
- The Great Migration
- Chicago - Destination for the Great Migration
- In Motion: The African-American Migration Experience Excellent authoritative site on all migration periods from slave trade to the present, including the Great Migration (1916-1930) and the Second Great Migration (1940-1970).
- US African American population by county, 1930 census Note the high concentration of African Americans in Chicago and Detroit.
Jacob Lawrence - The Migration of the Negro (panel No.1), 1940-41, casein, tempera on hardboard, 12 x 18 inches, The Phillips Collection, Washington, D.C. © Gwendolyn Knight Lawrence.
- Civil Rights Movement
- African American Odyssey - The Civil Rights Movement Library of Congress American Memory Project
- African American Timeline, civil rights section Library of Congress American
Memory Project
- Lorraine Hansberry
- National Public Radio web page on Lorraine Hansberry Listen to a radio documentary story about the opening of Raisin in the Sun, listen to an audio interview with Lorraine Hansberry, read a short biographical article, and other related information.
- Columbia University, Social Justice Wiki - Lorraine Hansberry, Click on the following links: Biography of an Intellectual, Her Writing, Hansberry as a Social Activist, Hansberry's Life: a Timeline.
4. Newspapers
- New York Times Backfiles 1851 to present Available online from Seattle Public Library. Index to back issues of the New York Times newspaper. Search for early reviews of Raisin in the Sun or anything of historic interest. Need SPL library card number to login.
- Chicago Defender archives. Historic African American newspaper in print since 1905. Search for articles. Review the abstracts then contact Hollis Near to have the article downloaded
5. Journals and Magazines
- ProQuest This is an online index to journal, magazine, and newspaper articles. Coverage is from roughly 1988 to the present. It has many full-text articles you can print or email to yourself.
- Life magazine (original back issues in print.)
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Back issues of Life magazine, from 1936 - 1972, are available at Seattle Publice Library and at the University of Washington. |
- Ebony magazine (original back issues in print) is available at the University of Washington . Ebony is a perfect resource for a national overview of popular culture, arts and politics from the perspective of a 100% black owned publication.
on microfilm from 1945 to 1957 at Suzzallo Library, Microform and Newspaper Collections.
in print from 1957 to the present at Suzzallo Library, Periodicals.
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Back issues of Ebony are indexed in Reader's Guide Retrospective (1890 - 1982).
Side note: Ebony has been published in Chicago since 1945. Its founder, John H. Johnson (1918-2005), was part of the great migration to the north during the 1930's when his widowed mother moved to Chicago from Arkansas. |
6. Other Libraries
Feel free to talk to a Cornish librarian before visiting other libraries for advice about which library is best for your project.