Research Desk
The pages of this archive are the students' own, kept as they wrote them in 2007. The Research Desk is where the people who keep the archive write about that work: how to use it as a starting point, how to write about the people and court cases it covers, and how a school project of this kind can grow into something larger.
Researching Maryland Civil Rights History from This Archive
How to use the 2007 student essays, their endnotes, the interview list and the timeline on this site as a starting point for Maryland civil rights research.
A Publisher and a Plaintiff: Carl Murphy and Donald Gaines Murray
Carl Murphy of the Afro-American and Donald Gaines Murray of the law school case, approached as subjects for a biographical essay and for a legal case brief.
From a School Project to a College Essay
The essays on this site were written by high school students. How research, interviews and a public website can become material for an honest application essay.