User talk:Lschwendy
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If you have any questions, please don't hesitate to contact me on my talk page. Adam (Wiki Ed) (talk) 21:11, 31 January 2017 (UTC)
3 Topics Assignment[edit]
The three topics I would like to work on are (not in a particular order):
- "Whitecapping" or the movement of poor white farmers in South organizing across counties to lynch black individuals. Not much is said about it wikipedia, and I'd like to add more. This was not the KKK, but specifically poor farmers, beginning in Indiana.
- White Union veterans that organized against the KKK / lynchings / violence against blacks post-civil war (No wiki page for this that I know of)
- The "American Protective League" and it's relationship with the KKK / lynching / racism / violence against Black Americans.
Lschwendy (talk) 03:44, 8 February 2017 (UTC)Lschwendy
Peer Review[edit]
This article gives a good basic explanation as to what white capping is. The history section gives an especially detailed account of the motivations and demographics of those who made up the White Caps, which was a very crucial thing to include. The use of sources and citations is also strong - there is a good number of academic sources that validate the details listed. The details added gave good insight and offered a stronger elaboration on the topic at hand. However, there could have been much more elaboration on specific events and instances of whitecapping - maybe news articles will help provide examples, or links to other wikipedia pages that describe these events. The organization can also be improved. The intro paragraph is a little brief, and the history section can be split up with some of the very general content shifted to the intro to give some clearer summarization there. The addition of the paragraph on Governor Vardaman was interesting, but maybe that should be moved to the history section to make the methodology section more consistent. Overall, an expansion of detail and addition of an events section and some reorganization will improve the good additions that have already been made.Ktwilcoxson (talk) 03:06, 9 March 2017 (UTC)