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=Annotated Bibliography = //By Nicole A. and Maryam K.//

Hanan, Eric and Schwartz, Yardena. "Confronting Racism In America." __ABC News__. Site last updated Nov. 11, 2009. ABC News. Accessed Nov. 8, 2009 <[]>

 Low, W. Augustus and Virgil A. Cliff, eds. //Encyclopedia of Black America.// New York: A Da Capo Paperback, 1981. Print.  Rose, Cynthia, ed//. American Decades: Primary Sources: 1950-1959//. Thomson Gale. Print. Rose, Cynthia, ed//. American Decades: Primary Sources: 1980-1989//. Thomson Gale. Print.  "The Autobiography of Miss Jane Pittman (1976)." __New York Times Movies.__ The New York Times. November 1, 2009. []
 * Yardena Schwartz and Eric Hanan are the authors of this specific article. Yardena Schwartz has experience in print, TV, radio and new media. She currently works for ABC News Today. Eric Hanan is the producing for TV shows and new casting. This article explains an experiment performed by "What Would You Do?" on confronting racism in America and the results of this experiment. It was a useful source because it backed up lots of the information that we used and because it showed both sides of the coin; some people supporting racism while others fight it. This source was bias in that it encouraged people to not be racist and viewing racism as a bad thing while other sources may have viewed racism as a good thing.
 * I found that the authors have written several books on black history and they seem to be knowledgeable. This source has a lot of information about black movies before the 1980's. It was useful because it had a lot of information and movie titles all in the same place. I think that this source has a small bias towards black people.
 * We found this resource in the library. It is a type of encyclopedia with the information organized by decade. This resource was made up of primary resources from each era. From the 1950-1959, we got some information about "I Love Lucy"; from the 1980-1989, we got some information on "The Cosby Show". These were very useful because they contained primary sources which are sometimes hard to find. The books did not seem to have a bias overall, but they naturally did have some bias since they were primary sources.

 We also used Wikipedia and IMBD (Internet Movie Database) for finding general information on the films and shows. These were both useful for finding common information, such as the dates of movies and the awards won for them. I think that we can trust these sources because they are a group effort, so hopefully people catch other people's mistakes. Also, we were only looking for simple facts (not things there could be a bias on) and most of the time we corroborated one source with the other.
 * This was sponsored by the New York Times, which is known for being a good newspaper, so we thought it seemed trustworthy. It contained some basic information about the movie, like the casting. We mainly used it to corroborate the Wikipedia article we read on it. I don't think this source contained a bias.

Maljessi, Art. "A Timeline of Major Events in the American Civil Rights Movement." __The Maljessi Law Firm.__ Site last updated Dec. 3, 2009. The Maljessi Law Firm. Accessed Dec. 3, 2009 < [] > <span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS',Helvetica,sans-serif;">This site provided a list of major events in the American Civil Rights Movement and descriptions about each event. We used this information to connect the American Civil Rights Movement and the equality of races in films and TV. <span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS',Helvetica,sans-serif;"> We also had some background knowledge on many of the subjects. We had seen several of the movies and TV shows (Disney movies, //Guess Who's Coming to Dinner//, and "I Love Lucy" for a few examples), so we were able to weave our own views on them into our wiki.

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