I Analysis of the African roots of Black culture, slavery, abolition, Civil War, and Reconstruction. AFAM 460 Special Topics Seminar in African American culture. AFAM 490 Independent Study Arranged. History 354 African American History since 1877 Examines the history of African Americans from 1877 to the present. A general knowledge of American history is assumed.
Lectures emphasize the development of African American culture and the struggle for equality.
The Rural South Agricultural and rural history of the South from colonial period to present. Emphasis on economic, social, and political change. Slavery, Populism, New Deal, and civil rights movement. History 473X Civil Rights and Black Power Examines the history of the U.S. Civil Rights Movement of the 1950s and 1960s and its transformation into the Black Power Movement of the late 1960s and 1970s. Views this struggle for equality within the context of a much longer history of African American resistance.