MAIN TOPICS TO BE STUDIED

1- INTRODUCTION

                a)   Review – prelude to the Civil War, the Institution of slavery

                b)   Conflict between the North and the South

                c)  The role of African Americans in the Civil War    

 

2-THE PROMISE AND FAILURE OF POST WAR RECONSTRUCTION

                a)   Economic Readjustments, the Post Civil Amendments (13^th, 14^th, 15^th)

                b)   The Civil Rights Cases (1896-1957)

                     Plessy v. Ferguson – Brown v. Board of Education Kansas

                c)    Emergence of Jim Crow Laws 

              d)    Booker T. Washington  – W.E.B. Dubois

               e)   Self-Help and Philanthropy

 

3- THE ROLE OF AFRICAN AMERICAN SOLDIERS IN WORLD WAR I (1914- 1930)

              a)    Their historical role in Europe

                b)   Their historical role in the U.S.A

 

4- THE GREAT MIGRATIONS AND URBANIZATION OF AFRICAN AMERICANS (1915-1930)

                a)   The expansion of American cities and the pattern of violence

                b)   Progressive Voices – Niagara Fall Conference – Creation of the NAACP 

                c)   Violent Times- Race Riots, Racial Policies

 

5-MARCUS GARVEY AND THE RISE OF AFRICAN NATIONALISM

                a)    Political and social trends towards assimilation, integration, emigration,

                b)    cultural nationalism, separation, radicals, gradualists, etc..

 

6-THE HARLEM RENAISSANCE (1920-1930)

1. The New Negro Movement
2. Focus on the impact of cultural and artistic contributions of : James Weldon Johnson, W.E.B. Dubois, Duke Ellington, Louis Armstrong, Zora Neal Hurston, Claude McKay, Langston Hughes  etc..
3. The contribution of Literary and Musical Expressions of the Political and socio-economic plight of African Americans

7-THE GREAT DEPRESSION AND THE NEW DEAL

1. The pains of Economic Depression
2. Racism in hard times
3. Political Resurgence
4. New Deal Programs

8- WORLD II AND THE CHANGING TRENDS IN EDUCATION AND CIVIL RIGHTS

1. Participation of African American soldiers in World War II
2. The Modern Civil Rights Movement
3.  The Black Revolution – Freedom Riders Marching for Freedom
4.  Rosa Parks, Martin Luther King Jr., Malcom X, the Black Panther Party,
5.  The Civil Right Act of 1964, Black Pride, Illusion of equality, Race Riots, Progress,
6.  Black in Politics: John Lewis, Colin Powell, Condoleeza Rice, President Barack H. Obama etc…

9-CURRENT ISSUES

1. African Americans and the on-going struggles in Health Care, Racial Discrimination,
2. Education, Social Reform, Politics, Violence, Racial Profiling, Economics etc..
3. The Trends of Black Lives Matter.
4. Reparations: Whom, Why? What? When? How?

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READING ASSIGNMENTS AFN 124 / HIS 124

READING ASSIGNMENTS AFN/HIS 124  – AFRICAN AMERICAN HISTORY 1865 TO PRESENT

 

AFN 124 Syllabus – additional resources and discussion are posted and graded on BB. Weekly reading and assignments, are on your globalyceum course platform. Weekly assignments graded directly on globalyceum. Content from “main topics to be studied have been moved around on the discussion thread”

 

WEEK PRE COURSE: Pre Course Reading: Africa and Africans Before the Americas 

WEEK 1: Trans Atlantic Slave Trade 

WEEK 2: Capitalism and The Roots of Racism

WEEK 3: Abolitionism / Emancipation [1865]: 13^th amendment

WEEK 2: Reconstruction, Civil War, Jim Crow

WEEK 3: Great Migration [of African Americans] 

WEEK 4: Marcus Garvey & Rise of Black Nationalism

WEEK 5: MIDTERM EXAM

WEEK 6: Harlem Renaissance  

WEEK 7: Literary & Musical Contributions

WEEK 8:  Civil Rights: beginning of equality – 14^th amendment

WEEK 9: Supreme Ct / Modern CR / Affirmative Action

WEEK 10: RESEARCH PAPER

WEEK 11: Civil Liberties – Know Your Rights: 15^th amendment

WEEK 12: Inequality – Racial Discrimination

WEEK 13: TUESDAY: Inequality – BLM Movement / Racial Profiling

WEEK Emancipation/13th Am.; Voting Rights Act/15th Am. 

WEEK 14: Year of Return: 400 Years Later / Presentations 

WEEK 15: 1865 – Present: Reparations / BILL H.R 40

WEEK 16: FINAL EXAM REVIEW / FINAL EXAM due:  by 11:30PM /FINAL GRADE POSTED.