Black Issues Forum 2001
The Confederate Flag: A Source of American Pride or Hatred
Selected Resources - A Place To Begin Your Research
Faculty/Staff Advisors - Jennifer Williams Molock and Tamene Abebe
Peer Mentors - Yoseph Assefa, Kristen Windham
Faculty/Staff Advisors -Benita Phillips and Yoshica Chapman
Peer Mentors - Billy Williams, Vendria Sirlona, Ja'Net Woods-Green
Library Staff - Kevin Cullen, Awilda Reyes, Jessie Council
- Confederate Flag Scenario
- CSU Libraries Virtual Tour
- APA Style Guide via The University of Southern Mississippi Libraries
- How to Prepare an Annotated Bibliography via Cornell University's Reference Services Division
- University of Wisconsin-Madison Writing Center - Annotated Bibliography
Key Words/Subject Headings
- SAGE (Online catalog) - USE -"Confederate States of America History" and "Civil War" -- then modify search and limit to Reference (location)
Databases
These resources include fair amount of full-text materials.
- Periodical Abstracts - USE - "Confederate w flag," "flag and Mississippi", "flags and boycott"
- WilsonSelect All full text - USE - "Confederate flag"
- ABI/Inform - (Business database) USE - "Confederate flag"
- Electric Library- [Includes TV & Radio Transcripts and Ethnic Newswatch titles] - All Full Text USE same keywords as above.
- Ethnic Newswatch - a full-text collection of the newspapers, magazines and journals of the ethnic, minority and native press
- Academic Universe
- Select Academic Universe, News, General News, and use "Confederate flag boycott" and limit search to one publication title, e.g., The New York Times.
Selected News Articles and Newspaper Sites
- The State Newspaper - Columbia, SC - Search using Key Words "Confederate flag"
- Clarion-Ledger - Jackson, MS - Search using Key Word "Flag"
- Bush Dismissive Of NAACP South Carolina Confederate Flag Boycott - USA Today article via Jessie Jackson Jr's Website.
- USA Today.Com National and International News - search website for "Flag boycott"
- CNN.com - search website for "Confederate flag"
- The Black World Today- "More Groups Join NAACP's South Carolina Boycott" by Herb Frazier.
- Also use The Black World Today's search feature for other articles.
- Evangelical Lutheran Church in America
Searching the Internet
Use the following keywords.
- "confederate flag" and "South Carolina boycott"
- "confederate flag" and Mississippi
- "confederate flag" and Georgia... etc
Internet Sites - Selected - Use "Confederate flag boycott"
- Confederate Flag Debate via Yahoo.com - Full News Coverage.
- The Confederate Flag - This sight contains information about various types of Confederate flags used during the Civil War by Confederate Flags used during the war by many regiments and companies.
- The National Association for the Advancement of Colored People - NAACP Online
- Also search Yahoo.com using "Flag Boycott" and search About.com using "Confederate Flag"
- State of South Carolina home page.
- Governor Jim Hodges' Confederate Flag Bill Proposal
- S.C. Code of Laws: Title 1 Chapter 10--Removal And Placement Of Confederate Flag
- Governor Jim Hodges' Confederate Flag Bill Signing Address
- American Civil War Web site - Information about battles, people and statistics.
Content: Kevin Cullen and Kate Cunningham-Hendrix