Civil Rights Revolution and Law. 3 credits, 3 contact hours

Catalog description

Prerequisites: ENGL 102 with a grade of C or higher, and a course fulfilling the History and Humanities GER 200 level course with a grade of C or higher. This course will examine what historians have been identifying as the civil rights revolution—the moment in the twentieth century when a host of interest groups began pursuing rights through the court system. We will begin by examining African Americans’ campaign to gain civil rights through the courts and how political action supported and sometimes even exceeded this process. We will then examine how African Americans’ success inspired or shored up the claims of other groups—including women, Chicanos, Asian Americans, Native Americans, LGBTQ people, disabled people, and others—to pursue their rights in courts as well. This course may be used to satisfy a three credit 300 level GER in History and Humanities.