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Civil Rights/Black Liberation (444-0-20)

Instructors

Keeanga Yamahtta Taylor

Meeting Info

Kresge Centennial Hall 2-410: Mon 2:00PM - 4:50PM

Overview of class

Activists in the Black Lives Matter movement have said of their movement, "This is not your grandparents' civil rights movement." This course will examine the origins of the Civil Rights Movement and its radicalization, producing a Black insurgency that fueled the Black Liberation movement by the end of the sixties and into the 1970s. We will begin with the nineteenth century quest for Black civil rights and traverse its course through the high point of that struggle in the 1960s. The course will utilize a combination of primary and secondary sources to elucidate the history, culture and politics of the various stages of the Black freedom struggle extending into the 1970s.