Fall 2020  |  HIST 3853 Section 001: Black Protest in Twentieth Century America (35096)

Instructor(s)
Class Component:
Lecture
Credits:
3 Credits
Grading Basis:
Student Option No Audit
Instructor Consent:
No Special Consent Required
Instruction Mode:
In Person Term Based
Times and Locations:
Regular Academic Session
 
09/08/2020 - 12/16/2020
Tue 01:00PM - 03:20PM
UMTC, West Bank
Hanson Hall 1-105
Enrollment Status:
Open (11 of 16 seats filled)
Also Offered:
Course Catalog Description:
This course gets at the heart of why/how African Americans have been fighting for social and political equality throughout the 20th Century. We explore various ways that African Americans have articulated their political demands and affirmed their citizenship rights using youth and grassroots organizations, workers' rights, feminism, education, the courts and laws as tools for political advancement.
Class Description:
This course analyzes the evolution of African American political mobilization in the twentieth century. It explores the various ways that African Americans articulated their political demands and affirmed their citizenship using workers? rights, the church, feminism, education, war, grassroots organizations, the federal bureaucracy, and the law as tools for political action. We will also focus on the development of social movements from regionalized political struggles to national and international human rights campaigns. This course is particularly interested in how civil rights and black power advocates recorded a period that radically transformed America and its citizens. Autobiographies and oral testimonies will feature prominently in this course; journalists? accounts, documentaries, and historical scholarship will round out the sources used in this class.
Grading:
75% Reports/Papers
25% Class Participation Other Grading Information: Students will write 3 short (5 pages each) response papers on the films and primary sources used in the class.
Exam Format:
There will not be any exams for this class.
Class Format:
25% Lecture
25% Film/Video
25% Discussion
25% Small Group Activities
Workload:
150-180 Pages Reading Per Week
15 Pages Writing Per Term
3 Paper(s)
Textbooks:
https://bookstores.umn.edu/course-lookup/35096/1209
Instructor Supplied Information Last Updated:
6 April 2010

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