African Americans in US History and Society

Topic outline

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  General

  • Annonces Forum
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  Lecture One: Slavery in US History: an Overview

  • Readings for Tutorial 1 File
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  Lecture Two: The Jim Crow Laws and Racial Segregation

  • Lecture Two File
  • Readings for Tutorial 2 File
  • The Jim Crow Era URL

    1st part of the PBS documentary The Rise and Fall of Jim Crow, "Promises Betrayed"
    

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  Lecture Three: The Great Migration

  • Lecture Three File
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  African American Perspectives: Booker T Washington and WEB Du Bois Debate

  • Readings for Tutorial 3 File
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  African American Perspectives: the 20th Century

  • Readings for TDs / Book Chapter File

    Searching for Place: Nationalism, Separatism, and Pan-Africanism (By Akinyele Umoja, in Alton Hornsby, Jr. Ed. , A Companion to African American History, Blackwell, 2005, pp 529-544).
    

  • Black Power/ The Black Panther Party URL