African-American History: 1861 –1941 ((4 Credits))

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Students in this course examine the degree to which Emancipation changed the quality of life for African Americans. Students consider how the slow pace of economic transformation in the South gave rise to sharecropping and the convict leasing system, which served to prevent African Americans from migrating to other regions of the country and influenced political, social, and cultural endeavors within the African-American community. This course concludes by analyzing how "external" developments such as U.S. involvement in World War I affected prospects for migration out of the South and created opportunities for a new beginning. This course was previously HIS-243124 The African American Experience.