HIST 226 Long Civil Rights Movement

African American history (1860-1970) examines the halting progress Americans made during the 100 years between the Emancipation Proclamation and the civil rights legislation of the 1960's. Students consider the perspective of significant American civil rights activists, including W. E. B. Du Bois, Booker T. Washington, Josephine St. Pierre Ruffin, Mary Church Terrell, Anna Julia Cooper, Marcus Garvey, A. Philip Randolph, Malcolm X, and Martin Luther King Jr.

Credits

3

Cross Listed Courses

HIST 326

Offered

Fall semester of even calendar years

Notes

Meets the general education global foundations and humanities/history requirements.