African American   Immigration to  Wyandotte County 18875 - 1885 Delaware Township

PART VI: THE RESEARCH PAPER

 

    This paper will be four- five pages in length and it will contain footnotes referring to primary and secondary sources as well as to the charts and maps you created in doing this research.  A Reference page will be included.     Use the The Modern Language Association (MLA) Style in preparing this paper.

Introduction: This section Includes:
 

• The research question.
• Give some background  on Black migration from the South so that the reader has a context in which to place the study.
• End with  as statement of  your findings.

Resources and Methodology : This section includes a  discussion of :

• The secondary resources used in establishing the national pattern of immigration of Blacks to Kansas in the years after the Civil War
• The reliability of  these resources.
• How these sources provide a context for the specific research question on Black immigration into Delaware Township, Kansas?
 

 
• What  specific areas of the census were  looked at?  Why?
• What are some of the questions of validity and reliability raised by using this data?
• What other primary sources might have helped in this research?

Conclusions : This section includes a discussion of:
 

• How the data gathered supports, does not support, or gives an incomplete answer to the research question. Include an analysis of the numbers you generated in your study.
• What conclusion can be draw from a comparison of the percentage of Blacks who immigrated to Delaware Township in 1875 to the percentage of Blacks who immigrated to Delaware Township in 1885?
 
• Other conclusions might be drawn from the results of this study?
• Possible future directions of study relating to this research?
• Why such studies would be significant in answering the larger research question about immigration patterns to Wyandotte County?