Research Question:
Of Booker T. Washington and W.E.B. Du Bois, who had the better approach to fighting racism and reversing Jim Crow?

Objectives - when students have completed this assignment, they will have:

Composed a properly constructed introductory paragraph.
Learned the proper construction of body paragraphs.
Considered ways to approach the composition of a conclusion paragraph.

An introductory paragraph for your research project, including:

- hook;

- background information / description of topic;

- thesis statement.

(1 page, double spaced, 1" margins, 12 point Times New Roman Font, Turabian source citations, Word, Pages, PDF only).

Here is an example. In it, you will find the hook in bold, the background information/topic description in italics, and the thesis underlined.

I have a dream said Martin Luther King Jr., in 1963. His dream of equality and rights for African Americans was one shared by many who came long before him. After the Compromise of 1877, Jim Crow laws took deeper and deeper root throughout the South. With the passage of Plessy v Ferguson in 1896, the dreams of former slaves and their descendants for true equality of citizenship for actual freedom from economic disparity and racism were dreams deferred, but never discarded. Despite entrenched opposition, the long civil rights movement actively worked to right the wrongs of Jim Crow throughout the early twentieth century. By 1965, the movement was very successful in achieving its goals, as seen through the Civil Rights Act of 1964, the Voting Rights Act of 1965, and the victories of grassroots activism in desegregating southern institutions.