The Civil Rights-Black Power Era

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This course is a graduate level seminar on the Civil Rights Movement (CRM) and Black Power era in United States history (U.S.) with an emphasis on social and intellectual history. In this class, we will trace the long history of the struggle for Black equality from the early twentieth century to the Black Lives Matter Movement (BLM). This includes a discussion of major figures of the CRM and Black Power organizations, the pivotal role of women in this history, armed resistance, the movement in the North, and the limitations of civil rights reform in U.S. history more generally.