"Everybody Googles" So Let's Give It a Try

First document [link]:

Search entries in Google in an attempt to identify this document:

1.     "I am afraid I have never been a very useful member of the Daughters of the American Revolution letter” à The first link took me to a Wikipedia entry

2.     “Feb 26, 1939 refusing constitution hall to a great artist” à The first link took me to an educational website about FDR

3.     “Feb 26, 1939 refusing constitution hall to a great artist spell checked” à The first link took me to another Wikipedia entry

4.     “February 26, 1939 Daughters of the American Revolution Mrs. Roberts” à The first link took me to a government website, The National Archives.

I believe out of all of the search entries I tried, the fourth is the more credible because the only way for any organization to get a “.gov” in their domain address, is to be affiliated with the government. From these four search attempts, I discovered that this document is a letter from Eleanor Roosevelt to Mrs. Henry Roberts about Roosevelt resigning from the Daughters of the America Revolution for refusing to let Marian Anderson sing in the Constitution Hall.

Second document [link]:

Search entries in Google in an attempt to identify this document:

1.     “Background map arrested released jailed” à The first link too me to a background check website.

2.     “Background map Newark 306 jailed Jackson” à The first link took me to the Library of Virginia

The second link is the more credible of the two links and correctly identified the document. The Library of Virginia is a credible website because it is involved with the government and they got the document from the Library of Congress. The document is a Freedom Riders map from 1961, which identifies the routes the Freedom Riders took and where violent incidents occurred.

Third document [link]:

Search entries in Google in an attempt to identify this document:

1.     “City of Montgomery police j.f. flake in front of Empire Theater” à The first link took me to a copy of a newspaper article, seeming unrelated.

2.     “City of Montgomery police department 12-1-55” à The first link took me to a website titled, “Historical Thinking Matters”.

The second link is more credible of my two search entries because it is a website which teaches students how to identify and read documents like historians. “Equally important, they will become critical users of the vast historical archives on the web.” Essentially, this website was created or is related to the quest, “Everybody Googles”. The document is identified as a police report about a bus operator in 1955 who complained about Rosa Parks sitting in the “white” section of the bus. However, the document found on Historical Thinking Matters is not the absolute correct document. The absolute correct document can be found the tenth link listed in the second search entry at the National Archives, which is affiliated with the government (has a “.gov” domain, and is therefor credible.

Fourth document [link]:

Search entries in Google in an attempt to identify this document:

1.     “Roll call house of representatives eighty-eight” à The first link took me to a government website about membership of the 112^th Congress.

2.     “Roll call house of rep 88 feb 1 0 1964” àThe first link took me to the exact image. The second link took me to a website which is a teaching resource about congress.

The second link of the second search entry is the most credible source because they list their sources, have received a grant from the Community Foundation of Central Illinois and are supported by the Dirksen Center, a non-partisan, non-for-profit organization. The document is identified as roll call for the Civil Rights Act of 1964 for the House of Representatives. The Act discussed was passed with a majority, 290 - 130 vote.