Please fill out the following sheet:

1. Our decade: 1940s
2. Specific events/themes we're considering: Executive Order 9981

Date(s)	Event(s)	Theme(s)
1857	Dred Scott v. Sandford	Black citizenship

1. Specific research question(s) [how/why questions] we want to ask about these areas:

Event or theme	Potential how or why research questions
Dred Scott v. Sandford	How did the Dred Scott decision affect understandings of Black citizenship? Why did the Court rule as it did, given Missouri's "once free, always free" precedent?

1. Specific roles for each group member: [to be clear: ALL of you will need to contribute to research, and give input on writing, creating the PowerPoint slides, and editing, etc. But each of you should also have SPECIFIC tasks and areas in which you make the final call / have final responsibility. You might think of these as writer/editor/director, for example, with one of you responsible for putting together everybody's research contributions into a single coherent script, one person responsible for determining what film / image / music / sound effects /whatever go with each moment of that script; etc.]

Name	Role	Responsibilities
Student McPerson	Writer	Identify/assign research areas for group members, including myself Establish deadlines for group members to submit research summaries Organize materials into script form and submit to teammates for review Revise script Additionally: Help with creating and editing slides for the PowerPoint as needed.

1. Potential sources:
   1. Materials we've read or will read for class:

Author	Title	(apparent) relevance to project
Author McAuthorson	"Essay about Dred Scott"	It's about how the case made its way to the Supreme Court and the decision's consequences

1. Historical image repositories (like the Library of Congress). {Look forfor examplemuseums dedicated specifically to your topic or event, which will sometimes have digital images you can reproduce so long as you give credit (check each resource to see what their rules are, though).]

Name of institution hosting repository	website	Particularly useful for
Library of Congress (Dred Scott v. Sandford: Primary Documents in American History)	https://guides.loc.gov/dred-scott	Images of the Scott family

1. Sound / music repositories:

Name of institution hosting repository	website	Particularly useful for
Free Music Archive	https://freemusicarchive.org/genre/Old-Time__Historic?pageSize=20&page=1&sort=interest&d=0	Old-timey music from piano rolls (Creative Commons licensing)