HIST 237 - The 20th-Century Black Freedom Struggle

CR: 3
The purpose of this course is to examine the African American experience in the United states from the end of the Civil War to the present-day. An emphasis of this course is to raise the question: What is the meaning of freedom for African Americans in the 20th century? This question will examine African Americans’ long struggle for freedom through the pursuit of sheer survival, community building, quality education, economic justice, and civil and human rights. In this discussion, this course presents African Americans in the 20th century United States as those who moved-by choice and by force-and who moved others. This story emerges as central to blacks’ fight against Jim Crow, the Great Migration, the struggle for civil and human rights, and post-civil rights economic, political, social, and cultural developments and urbanization challenges. III.W, V.5