HIST 141 - African American History

(IAI: H2 909D; satisfies Human Relations Requirement)

Details the history of African Americans from the enslavement and shipment of Africans to North America through their on-going struggles for human and civil rights. Explores how the construct of race has evolved and influenced American history. Topics are the Middle Passage, religion of the slaves, slave resistance, Abolitionism, the Civil War, Reconstruction, the Great Migration, Harlem Renaissance, the Civil Rights Movement, urban unrest, and Affirmative Action. Prerequisite(s): None. (PCS 1.1, 3 credit hours - 3 hours lecture 0 hours lab)