HST-1530 History of African Americans since 1877

Credits: 3
This course surveys African-American History from the end of Reconstruction through the present. Through examining both primary and secondary sources, students analyze Black Americans’ efforts to counteract the inequities their communities experienced, largely as a result of racist Jim Crow laws and racial disenfranchisement. Moreover, students examine the Great Migration, the Harlem and Chicago Renaissances, the Post-World War II Integrationist and Black Nationalist movements, and black political activism at the turn of the millennium. This course is designed to assist students in gaining an improved understanding of (and appreciation for) the myriad ways in which Black Americans have impacted the cultural, political, social, and economic structures of the United States, and, in turn, how living within American society has impacted the evolution of African-American thought and action.

Course Outcomes

Analyze programs for racial uplift and civil rights that various African-American leaders and organizations advanced from the Nadir of Black Life in America through the Black Power Movement.
Describe the ways in which the Great Migration altered African American’s economic and political aspirations and culture.
Discuss ways in which African-American led and inspired movements helped shape American society, politics, and culture over the past 50 years.
Construct justifiable historical arguments based on evidence from primary and secondary sources.