The Black Experience 1619-1918 ((3 Units))

Catalog description

Prerequisite: ENGL 112 . This course explores ideas, people and events which will allow the class to re-think their individual and collective beliefs regarding Africa, Africans, and African-Americans as well as Black people throughout the Diaspora. More specifically, the period of 1619 to 1918 examines the origins of African-Americans beginning with their unwilling departure from West Africa, slavery, abolition, the Civil War, emancipation, reconstruction, historical achievements and striving to achieve first class citizenship in America. (Formerly 3002:252)