2017-2018 Graduate Catalog

HIST 5305 HISTORY OF BLACKS IN AMERICA

This course is designed to investigate both the particular contributions of Negroes to the development of the United States and the effects of a multifaceted national development upon them . After a treatment of their African roots, attention will be turned to the history of the blacks in America--political, economic, social, cultural. Special emphasis is placed on the Special emphasis is placed on the slave system, Reconstruction, the era of Jim Crow, and the origins and impact of the mid- twentieth century Black Revolution.

Credits

3