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Guess who has two thumbs and finished her first (very good, I think) draft of her prospectus? That’s right.

THIS GIRL.

Just waiting for feedback from my committee.

Funny how a UTI can stop you dead in your tracks for days. Very little writing and very little reading happened this week, although some did. But just sitting or sleeping is uncomfortable.

Back to work on Sunday, probably. I’m so close.

Only two more chapter outlines to go! All that’s left is chapter 1 on 1945-1960 activism and demographic shifts and chapter 5 on post-riots legislative gains. I can only write about one of these a day so far.

I can’t wait to be done.

Lit review is finished! Now all that’s left are three chapter descriptions, citations, and anticipated sources.

I need a Rudwick to my Meier. I bet he’d make writing a lot more fun and interesting.

In other news, I hate lit review. It’s the part holding up this first prospectus draft, and makes my insides want to die.

So the last intro draft has been moved to my “Contribution to the Field” section. Here’s the new intro:

While the passage of the Voting Rights Act of 1965 ensured that African-Americans would have the right to vote granted by the Fifteenth Amendment, this legislation did little for the voting prospects of the residents of the District of Columbia. Denied the right to elect their own local government or representatives to the U.S. Congress, Washingtonians of all races had only been allowed to vote for president the previous year, in the first presidential election since Congress passed the Twenty-Third Amendment. Although Washington had long been home to active movements for legislative autonomy from Congress and African-American civil rights, these movements remained largely separate until the District became a majority-minority city in the 1950s. Despite early civil rights successes in the 1940s and 1950s and agitation for District voting rights by national organizations like the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee, the desire for home rule remained largely unrealized until the late 1960s and early 1970s - after the alleged end of the civil rights movement. How did the city’s changing demographics and relationship with the national civil rights struggle impact the century-old battle for home rule and the city’s relationship with the U.S. Congress? How does the District of Columbia fit into the larger narrative of the black protest movement?