1. Harlem’s Rattlers: Fight for Equality
The Literature
Harlem’s Rattlers: Fight for Equality
Francisco Palomo
Hist 297

2. Overview Brief review of topic Research and findings
Finding right sources
Forming a thesis
Gold mine and curveball
Linking it all together
Evidence

3. Harlem Hellfighters 15th New York National Guard Designated 369th
First African Americans to fight
First Americans to receive “Croix de Guerre”
First Americans to reach Rhine River

4. Find those sources! Thesis about Harlem Hellfighters:
Books referenced multiple times
Subject headings
Harlem’s Rattlers (2014)
Thesis about Harlem Hellfighters:
African Americans are worthy of full citizenship.

5. Linking it all together
Major topics
Praising the troops
Military history
Social History
Race and Gender

6. Evidence
1919
1970s
2000s

7. Conclusion
Conclusion