HS 366 - The Civil Rights Era

(3.00 cr.)

Prerequisite: One HS 100-level course. Examines the black struggle for equality in America from disfranchisement in the 1890s through the turbulent 1960s and 1970s. Emphasizes the institutional and cultural barriers to racial equality in both North and South, and the organized means by which African Americans and white sympathizers challenged them. GT/IAF/IU