Mar 28, 2024  
2018-2019 Academic Catalogue 
    
2018-2019 Academic Catalogue [ARCHIVED CATALOGUE]

HIS 255 - Lives of African-Americans (FYS) (1)

African American heroes and voices continue to influence the trajectory of our nation as we grow and evolve. We will get to know their voices and stories through autobiographies and biographies that shaped African American history. There will be a particular focus on slavery, the Jim Crow era, and the civil rights movement of the 1960s. Readings will include works by Frederick Douglass, Phillis Wheatley, Booker T. Washington, W.E.B. DuBois, Malcolm X, and Martin Luther King, Jr. As a class we will discuss the particular challenges they encountered, victories they secured, and how their lives and work have created social dialogue and impacted social change
(First Year Seminar (FYS))