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ENWR 1510: Quiet Soundings: Rhetorics of Curiosity (Tolbert)

This guide supports the research and classwork done in MaKysha Tolbert's ENWR 1510 class (Fall 2023).

Instructions

In your groups, look at the digitized primary sources from UVA Special Collections below and answer the questions on your group's worksheet. Be prepared to tell the rest of the class about your sources!

Primary Source Images

The Beam was a newsletter edited by the United Public Workers of America Local 550, a union for Black hospital workers at UVA in the 1940's. Special Collections holds several issues of the newsletter.