1. https://bltc-alexanderstreet-com.eu1.proxy.openathens.net/philologic/BLTC/navigate/6/1/ (Links to an external site.)

Bound by the Color Line- W.E.B. DuBois. 1946. Black Thought and Culture

2.  Link  : Children in the New York Metropolitan Museum, 1961  (Links to an external site.) from Black Studies Center

I found the search for these sources a lot harder than I expected.  My initial search was just "NAACP," as I was hoping that would bring up a strong database of sources.  I then went to the ProQuest History Vault, where I tried to narrow my search by looking up the term "leader."  After digging through many files, I found it quite hard to narrow my choices.  I reviewed the list again, and was intrigued by W.E.B. Dubois, as I felt that my high school did not teach much of his work during the civil rights movement.  I searched "civil rights" which led me to the Black Thought and Culture database.  There I began looking through pieces on DuBois, and the title " Bound by the Color Line" got my attention.  In this, Dubois talks about how America fought for freedom and forced slaves to join the battle, but still considers themselves a democracy in modern (1946) times.  He mentions the flaws in American democracy and how the fight for black rights is a world struggle.  Finding the picture was a bit easier.  I chose this because I felt it was a good way of  displaying how  DuBois was able to connect American history to Black history,  while also commenting on the change needed in the world, but specifically America. The search term "black" led to  many databases, so I tried to find one that contained images.  Words "freedom," "global," "pride," and "slave" were all used to find very few images that pertained to the document.  I then search "nationalism" and found the image of the boys.  I felt that this was relating to the Dubois article because they are at the museum to learn about black heritage and why they should be proud of black culture, rather than American culture.  The idea of teaching a black specific culture reminded me of Singh, so I was intrigued.

My biggest surprise throughout the searching was how broad the search terms have to be.  When little to no things came up when I searched famous names, I was shocked.  Thus, I had to get more general and search ideas rather than specific people.  It was not until I got deeper into databases that I could be more specific with search terms and what type of documents I was looking for specifically.  Overall, I was surprised by the difficulty of the search, but I was pleased with what I found.