Evaluating your sources

Pick a source from each category below: ONE source about the early women’s rights movement, and ONE source about the later women’s rights movement.

THE EaRLY WOMEN’S RIGHTS MOVEMENT (TO 1921)

· Constitutional Rights Foundation. 2004. How Women Won the Right to Vote.  https://www.crf-usa.org/bill-of-rights-in-action/bria-20-2-a-how-women-won-the-right-to-vote

· Debra Michals (Editor). No date. Alice Paul.  https://www.womenshistory.org/education-resources/biographies/alice-paul

· Library of Congress. No date. Women’s Suffrage in the Progressive Era.  https://www.loc.gov/classroom-materials/united-states-history-primary-source-timeline/progressive-era-to-new-era-1900-1929/womens-suffrage-in-progressive-era/

THE LATER WOMEN’S RIGHTS MOVEMENT (1921–PRESENT)

· Kira Cochrane. May 7, 2013. 1963: The Beginning of the Feminist Movement.  https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2013/may/07/1963-beginning-feminist-movement

· Linda Simon. 2017. The Flappers Took the Country by Storm, but Did They Ever Truly Go Away.  https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/flappers-took-country-storm-ever-go-away-180964412/

· Lorraine Boissoneault. February 15, 2017. The 1977 Conference on Women’s Rights That Split America in Two.  https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/1977-conference-womens-rights-split-america-two-180962174/

· Susan Hauser. May 15, 2012. The Women’s Movement in the ’70s, Today: “You’ve Come a Long Way,” but …  http://libdatab.strayer.edu/login?url=https://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&db=a9h&AN=82302465&site=eds-live&scope=site

The research question is

“What lessons from women’s struggles for equality in the past can help inform current and future women’s rights issues?”

Please answer the below questions for each source

1. What key words and phrases will you be looking for in your sources?

2. What is the title of your secondary source?

3. Who wrote this source?

4. When was it written?

5. Why was it written? (1-2 sentences)

6. In your own words, explain the main idea of this source. (3-4 sentences)

7. What makes this a secondary source? (3-4 sentences)

8. Is the writer neutral, or does the writer advance a particular point of view or perspective? Explain your answer by referring to specific examples from the source. (3-4 sentences)

9. In your own words, explain which facts or details from the source will help you answer your research question. (5-7 sentences)

10. Why is this source credible? (1-2 sentences)