Lecture Course: The African-American Freedom Struggle from the Civil War to the Twenty-First Century

Summer Term 2013
Lecture Prof. Dr. Manfred Berg                                                                                          
The African-American Freedom Struggle from the Civil War to the Twenty-First Century
Monday 11.00-13.00, Hörsaal Historisches Seminar

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1st Lecture: 15 April  2013:  Introduction and Organizational Matters

2^nd Lecture: 22 April 2013:  Historiography, Periodization, Concepts

3^rd Lecture: 29 April 2013: Civil War, Emancipation and Reconstruction

4^th Lecture: 6 May 2013: White Supremacy and Black Resistance, 1880-1917

5^th Lecture: 13 May 2013: Black Rights from the Great War to the Great Depression

6^th Lecture: 27 May 2013: Black Protest during the New Deal and World War Two

7^th Lecture: 3 June 2013: The Cold War and Civil Rights

8^th Lecture: 10 June 2013: The Struggle over School Desegregation

9^th Lecture: 17 June 2013: Freedom Now: The Nonviolent Movement in the South

10^th Lecture: 24 June 2013: The Apex of Civil Rights Reform

11^th Lecture: 1 July 2013: Black Power-White Backlash

12^th Lecture: 8 July 2013: From Protest to Politics

13^th Lecture: 15 July 2013: Legacies: The Black Freedom Struggle in American Memory

14^th Lecture: 22 July 2013: Exams