The History of Black Civil Rights in the United States

This course examines the history of Black Civil Rights in the United States from colonial America to the present, emphasizing the Civil Rights Movement from the end of the Civil War to the death of Martin Luther King, Jr.. Other topics include the status of free African Americans in the colonial period, the federal Constitution and the Supreme Court, women's rights and feminism, affirmative action, racial profiling, reparations, significant personalities, and the cultural response to the Civil Rights Movement.