Hello everyone, This week has been all over the place. First, we have started our Fall Break this Friday. My grasp on days have been off. We were able to finish our goal of collecting our materials. Our next goal is to make sure we are both able to organize the materials. We want to […]
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Milestone #1 Assignment
Hello, For the milestone assignment Kailee and I decided to make sure we have exhausted all of our options for research materials. We went to our school’s library and the local places near us that could have possible information on “desegregation in schools of Fredericksburg”. We were able to go to our university’s library, the […]
Week Seven
Goal: October 5: Visit the heritage center and revisit the Virginiana Room and campus library to gather research materials in the form of newspaper articles from The Free Lance Star and photographs of the events related to the conflict. Permission is requested for photos from The Free Lance Star. Hello everyone! Kailee and I have […]
Research Contract
Alyssa Macaranas and Kailee Adkins Conflict In America Dr. Wallace and Dr. Welsh 10/2/2017 Project Contract If God is For Us, Who Can Be Against Us: School Desegregation in The Fredericksburg Region Mission Statement The overall goal of the project is to explore how the process of desegregation played out throughout the school systems […]
Week Six
Hello everyone! This week has been super busy for Kailee and I. We have done the finishing work of photocopying all the newspaper articles for our regional library. We also came on a good day of finding the local archivist for the other center in Fredericksburg that could have possible information on our topic. Kailee […]
Research Plan
Alyssa Macaranas and Kailee Adkins Conflict In America Dr. Wallace and Dr. Welsh 9/25/2017 Schedule of Milestones (When Critical Pieces are Ready to Present) October 5: Visit the heritage center and revisit the Virginiana Room and campus library to gather research materials. October 12: All research materials gathered. October 19: All research […]
Week Five
Blog #5 – September 25, 2017 Kailee and I are starting to finalize the tasks we need to do for the upcoming weeks. We plan to finalize the places we need to research for out topic. We plan to go to our regional library, and to go to the Heritage Center to get archives. Kailee […]
Research Proposal
Research Proposal If God is For Us, Who Can Be Against Us: School Desegregation in The Fredericksburg Region Mission/Goal of Project: When studying conflict, many most commonly associate Fredericksburg with the Civil War and nothing else. Knowing that Virginia is a well of history, we knew there was something significant that we could bring light […]
Week Four
September 17, 2017 For this week our main goal was to finish our research proposal. We have a good foundation of what we want to do for our topic, so we were good on what we wanted to express in our introduction to the proposal. We figured out the main points, but we were struggling […]
Week Three
Blog #3: September 10th, 2017 UPDATE Kailee and I have honed more on our topic. We are going to study on the different schools in our area that were affected after the Brown vs. Board of Education decision from the 1950s to the 1960s. It took about a decade after the court decision to have […]