What is an opinion or a claim made according to someone’s perspective? In history.

Historical texts usually use third-person, although:

Speeches and interviews are usually in first-person
Flyers, posters, and speeches sometimes use second-person.

Point of View – Becoming Involved in the Civil Rights Movement

Watch the interview “When Injustice Was the Norm” with Alice Walker. In this interview segment, her description goes from first-person to third-person to first person.

These shifts correspond to whose story she is telling in the narration: herself, her father, African-Americans in her community and in general, and herself. She starts by describing discrimination her father and others experienced, and ends by explaining why she and others like her joined the Movement.