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Bloody Sunday Coursework

Q1. Source A shows a picture of the catholic civil rights marchers.  This source shows that there were people marching on the 30th January 1972 so they were therefore involved in the march but the source does not tell us why they were marching.  The source also shows the civil rights marchers are marching peacefully and there is no sign of trouble amongst them.  Source B is an article from a British newspaper.  Although the newspaper is British, it supports the Catholics, by saying that the protestant councils have discriminated against the Catholics, One reason is that the Protestants had been put in better houses than the Catholics and they both had to pay the same amount of rent.  The fact that the British newspapers were supporting the Catholics could suggest that this is a reliable and unbiased source!  This could be one of the reasons the Catholics were marching, it could be another reason alongside interment.

Source C is probably an unbiased source because it is part of what a historian says about ‘Bloody Sunday’; most historians look for the truth.  This source does not say why the civil rights marchers were marching, but is still a very useful source because it tells us where the march originated.  Source D shows that the Catholics were being treated less fairly than the Protestants, the source also says that the ‘Ulster Protestant Action’ (UPA) was formed.  This was to keep Protestants and loyal workers in employment in times of depression in preference to their fellow Catholic workers.

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Sources A to D are all useful to historians but not all the sources are useful for finding out why Catholics were marching on ‘Bloody Sunday’.  There are only two sources that are useful for this, and they are sources B and D.

Q2.  Sources E to K give different interpretations of what happened on ‘Bloody Sunday’, because they are people who have written the sources from the Catholic and Protestant point of give view, so that there are bound to be different stories of what happened, of which some are biased!  

Source E is a ...

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