The Civil Rights Movement ((4 Credits))

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The student will examine the political and social climate, with a particular of focus on racial issues, in the United States during the three decades following the Second World War. The student will gain a thorough knowledge of the movement that organized to push for the enactment of civil rights, divisions within that movement, as well as forces that opposed the goals of the movement. The student will gain a familiarity with the lives and careers of Rosa Parks, Martin Luther King, Malcolm X, Bayard Rustin, A. Philip Randolph among others, and with such organizations as the NAACP, CORE, the Urban League, and Black Muslim organizations.