Kel M. answered 04/27/21
Experienced tutor and teacher-in-training
That's a big question! Two whole fields and a whole social movement. Since historiography is the study of how history gets written, take a look at the "first draft of history": news media coverage. How has coverage changed throughout the history of the movement, and how has journalism/history generally portrayed civil rights and Black liberation struggles? What does this say about our society? Who has the power to decide what the "official" record of an event gets to be? What has the movement changed or attempted to change about the structure of our society, whose stories are told, and how? What histories contribute to this moment, and what stories were overlooked? Does a moment change when its history gets written down? How?