FINAL ESSAY AND PARTICIPATORY RESEARCH PROPOSAL
Identify your issue
Write a paragraph in which you explain the issue you will explore in your final essay. What is the contemporary civil rights issue? Why is it a civil rights issue? Why is it important? What will you need to research?
be specific about the topic—do not say, for example, “racism” or “sexism.” The topic has to be specific so you can develop a plan of collective action (method of protest, boycott, etc.) to respond to it much as the civil rights leaders we have studied responded.