HIS - 257 African American History

(3 s.h.)

The course chronicles the experience of African Americans in the history of the United States. Topics include African heritage, the slave trade, slavery in the Antebellum South, the Civil War and emancipation, the Jim Crow era, the birth of racial advancement organizations, the development of twentieth-century urbanization and nationalism, and the struggle for civil rights, political power and cultural expression from mid-century to the present.

Lecture Hours: 45
Lab Hours: 0
Clinical Hours: 0
Work Experience Hours: 0

Equivalent to HIST-111.