African-American History: 1870 - Present  (Cultural Literacy course)

Catalog description

This course surveys African-American history from the 1870s to the present. Central themes are the integral role African-Americans have played throughout U.S. history and the impact of African-American history upon the present-day United States. Major topics will include Reconstruction, the Jim Crow Era, The Niagara Movement, the Harlem Renaissance and the 'New Negro,' African-Americans in America's wars, the Civil Rights Movement of the 1950s and 1960s, and recent events such as the Presidency of Barack Obama and the Black Lives Matter movement.