HIST 313 - The Civil Rights Movement

Credit Hours: 4
This is a reading and writing-intensive course on the history of the African American freedom struggle. Chronologically the course concentrates on the period of time starting with the rise of disfranchisement and segregation in the late 1800s and moving through the Black Power movement of the late 1960s and 1970s. Through secondary source readings, exams, and short paper assignments we will track the various political challenges the African American community has encountered over these years and the strategies used to overcome.