Students will launch the project by examining BYP100’s cross-neighborhood organizing challenge, consulting organizer evidence, defining intended users, and developing inquiry questions that guide historical research and human-centered design.

Students will investigate Black resistance traditions, civil rights organizations and leaders, and organizer evidence to identify patterns without treating historical and contemporary conditions as interchangeable. Acting as archive researchers, public historians, community engagement specialists, and curriculum designers, they will evaluate sources, analyze root causes, develop historically grounded case materials, and propose an evidence-based field-guide concept for BYP100, CUP, and The People's Forum.

Students will translate historical and organizer evidence into an accessible field-guide prototype, test design assumptions with peers and external reviewers, and document evidence-based revisions before implementation.

Students will prepare and conduct an ethical scenario-based test of their Black Resistance Organizing Field Guide, analyze intended-user evidence, and make documented improvements before the partner handoff.

Students will present their historically grounded field-guide prototype and partner handoff recommendations to an authentic audience, then use evidence from the full project to assess their growth and civic impact.