THE AFRICAN-AMERICAN EXPERIENCE SINCE 1865

Catalog description

This course introduces students to major events and people that helped to shape African American life, culture and history since 1865. The course will highlight issues such as emancipation, racial violence/lynching, the diversity of black leadership, the Harlem Renaissance, Jim Crow and the Modern Freedom Struggle. This course examines the tradition of protest among blacks and the diverse means they used to achieve their goals of freedom, equality and justice.