HIST 402 The Long Civil Rights Movement
This course studies the freedom struggle in America from Reconstruction through the 1990s. Topics include biracial Reconstruction governments, the rise of white terrorism and the Redeemers, Jim Crow, African Americans in World War I, Asian Americans on the West coast, immigration laws in the nineteenth and twentieth century, segregation and desegregation, race and Cold War foreign policy, competing Civil Rights visions, the War on Poverty, Affirmative Action, Latino/a rights in the American southwest, and the emergence of color-blind racism.
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As Needed