Tutorial 2: Determine Information Requirements

Imagining Sources Practice Question #2

Imagine the kind of sources that would best answer these questions.

primary sources (letters, memoirs, and other contemporary documentary sources)
quantitative sources (statistics)
 secondary sources (books and articles by other historians)

What were Frederick Douglass' views on women's rights?

On what basis did the U.S. Supreme Court complete the reversal of Plessy v. Ferguson (1896) in the Brown v. Board of Education decision in 1954?