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Navigating the project

This project is divided into broad sections, such as The Civil Rights Movement 1955-1965 and School Integration. Each section is further divided into more specific topics, such as The Montgomery Bus Boycott, or subsections that contain topics of their own, such as School Integration in Washington, D.C.. Sections and subsections also have an introductory page, which provide a one-paragraph overview of the information contained in that section along with links to all the topics.

To make navigating through the project easy, every topic has a navigation bar at the top and the bottom of the page that looks like this:

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• Previous Topic and Next Topic take you to the topic preceding or following the current topic. These links allow you to read through the project sequentially, as you might do with a research paper.
• Up takes you to the introduction for the section you're currently in. For example, if you're at a topic in the Dred Scott section, clicking Up will take you to the introduction for Dred Scott. Clicking Up from introduction pages will take you to the introduction for the section if you're in a subsection or to the project home page if you're in a section.
• Table of Contents takes you to the table of contents for the entire project, which provides links to every topic. This is useful if you'd like to jump directly to a particular topic.
• The Citation Guide provides information on citing this project in another research project.
• Feedback takes you to a page where you can comment on the project. Please take the time to do this, particularly if you have suggestions for improvements.
• Search sends you to a page that allows you to search the text of the entire project for particular words.
• Home takes you directly to the African American History home page. There is a link to the home page at the top and bottom of every page in the project.
• Help! brings you to this page.

Footnotes

The footnotes in this project are exactly like footnotes in traditional research papers; they signal that the preceding information came from another source and provide bibliographical information on that source. Footnotes appear as links in the text, like this:

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By clicking on a footnote, you'll get the bibliographical information on that source. Note: MLA style dictates that full bibliographical information need only be provided the first time a source is cited. Subsequent citations contain only the author's last name and the page number of the citation. I have followed this style in the footnoting for this project, so if the footnote you're interested in does not contain full bibliographical information, please scroll up the footnote page until you find the note that does. If all else fails, you can look for the source in the bibliography. Also, if multiple citations come from the same page of the same source, only the last one has a footnote.

About this project

This project was written by Lisa Cozzens, who is currently a sophomore at Brown University, Providence, RI, USA. To find out more about Lisa, please visit her home page.

For more information on the history of this project, please visit the history page.

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