Courses

History of African Americans from African origins to the modern era, focusing on enslavement, emancipation and the struggle for equal rights.

This course is a survey of African American history, with an emphasis on the origins of the ancient kingdoms of Egypt, Kush, Meroe, Axum, and West Africa and including the slave trade, slavery, the beginnings of Black culture in the North and South, slave resistance and rebellions, and sectional differences. Northern free Black people will be studied along with the Civil War and the Reconstruction period of 1868.

This course traces the history of African Americans from colonial times to the end of the Civil War. Emphasis is placed on the great Afro- Muslim empires, the African way of life prior to colonialism and imperialism, the Atlantic slave trade, slavery in America, and the Civil War. Fall.

This survey course examines the problems and experiences of African Americans from the period of Reconstruction in 1868 to 1877, with an emphasis on the inner dynamics of the Black community and the sociopolitical efforts of the Black community to the present. The relationship of Black people to the wider society will be studied with the internal migration of African Americans, and the political impact of cultural exhibitions.

This course traces the history of African Americans from Reconstruction to the present. The course is designed to study the history of Afro-Americans from the Reconstruction era to the present. Emphasis is placed on the contributions of blacks who wield political power, their controversies, and their progress. Spring.

Survey of late 19th century to present African American history.

Survey of late 19th century to present African American history.

An historical survey of African American heritage, culture, contributions and adjustments from slavery to emancipation and the early role of African Americans within the emergence of American civilization.

An historical survey of African Americans arer emancipation with emphasis on the social, economic, political and personal struggle to gain equality within the American civilization.

Ancient African civilizations and their demise, the slave trade and slavery in New World to the Civil War.