HIS 5000

About this course

This course introduces students to African American history from the colonial period to the present. It explores key aspects of the history of African Americans with specific emphasis on the enslavement of African people, the development of Africa American culture, the ways in which African Americans fought for their rights during slavery, Colonial and post-independence periods, Reconstruction, Jim Crow, and the civil rights era, and the important contributions that African Americans have made and continue to make to the nation?s intellectual, political, social, and cultural life.