Topic: Crusaders for Social Justice

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This course will cover American reform movements and reformers from 1830 to 1920, concentrating on the literature that emerged from them. Examples of texts students will read include: Harriet Jacobs, "Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl," written by herself; Lydia Maria Child, "Letters from New York,"; Jacob Rills, "How the Other Half Lives"; Upton Sinclair, "The Jungle"; Jane Addams, "The Twenty Years at Hull House"; and W.E.B. DuBois, "The Souls of Black Folks." There will be class trips to the Lower East Side Tenement Museum, Ellis Island, the site of the Triangle Shirtwaist Fire and other locations in Greenwich Village and Harlem.