HIST5305 HISTORY OF BLACKS IN AMERICA

This course is designed to investigate both the particular contributions of Negroes to the development of the United States and the effects of a multifaceted national development upon them . After a treatment of their African roots, attention will be turned to the history of the blacks in America--political, economic, social, cultural. Special emphasis is placed on the Special emphasis is placed on the slave system, Reconstruction, the era of Jim Crow, and the origins and impact of the mid- twentieth century Black Revolution.