HIS236 African American History II
This course surveys the African-American experience from the Late Nineteenth Century to Late Twenty-First Century. It covers major events and developments such as racial segregation, racially motivated violence, the Great Migration from the cotton fields of the South to the North and West, Black Nationalism, the Harlem Renaissance, the Great Depression, Black participation in World War II, freedom struggles, legislative, and electoral successes of the Civil Rights movement and Black Power movement. It concludes with the election and reelection of President Barack Obama, conservative backlash, the international impact of contemporary Black culture influenced by hip-hop and the ongoing struggles for criminal justice reform, and a radical social inquiry of economic and political rights.