Vorlesung: The African American Freedom Struggle from the Civil War to the Twenty-First Century
Summer Term 2017
Lecture Prof. Dr. Manfred Berg
The African American Freedom Struggle from the Civil War to the Twenty-First Century
Monday, 11-13 hrs., Hörsaal Historisches Seminar/Lecture Hall
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Syllabus/Selected Bibliography
1st Lecture: 24 April 2017: Emancipation and Reconstruction
2nd Lecture: 8 May 2017: White Supremacy and Black Resistance, 1880-1917
3rd Lecture: 15 May 2017: Black Rights from the Great War to the Great Depression
4th Lecture: 22 May 2017: Black Protest during the New Deal and World War Two
5th Lecture: 29 May 2017: The Cold War and Civil Rights
6th Lecture: 12 June 2017: The Struggle over School Desegregation
7th Lecture: 19 June 2017: Freedom Now: The Nonviolent Movement in the South
8th Lecture: 26 June 2017: The Apex of Civil Rights Reform
9th Lecture: 3 July 2017: Black Power-White Backlash
10th Lecture: 10 July 2017: From Protest to Politics
11th Lecture: 17 July 2017: A New Jim Crow?
12th Lecture: 24 July 2017: Exams