+*AFRICAN AMERICAN EXPERIENCE – NEW DEAL TO PRESENT

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Examines the African American experience beginning with 1929 economic crash on Wall Street, Franklin Delano Roosevelt’s (FDR’s) 1930s and the early 1940s New Deal programs to help working-class Americans and his leadership through WWII. Covers the rise and suppression of the Civil Rights Movement and its Black Power and anti-war spinoffs to the emergence in the early 1970s of a Black political leadership class to the ascendancy of Barack Obama as the first African American to the office of the Presidency, of the United States up to the present.