How historians evaluate the credibility and reliability of primary documents

that explain how historians evaluate the credibility and reliability of primary documents. Based on the criteria given in these two resources, determine if Booker T. Washington's speech is/is not reliable evidence.
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Links to an external site.Can Washington's speech be considered reliable evidence? Your thesis statement should respond directly to this question. Bear in mind, you are not determining if it is a reliable source, but if it can be used as reliable evidence. Support your claim with a structured argument that mobilizes specific pieces of evidence from the document.
Begin your paper with an introduction to the source that ends with your thesis statement. You may not know what your argument should be until you have read through your notes on the source. You may want to start writing the paper and then compose your thesis statement once you have decided what you think