HIST 383 - The Civil Rights Movement

3 Credit(s)

This course contextualizes the movement for social justice and legal equality for African Americans that took place during the 1950s and 1960s within a much longer history of protest against racial injustice in the United States. It envisions the struggle for civil rights in America, even during the 1950s and 1960s, as not one movement but many, facilitated by a variety of individuals and groups that adhered to different goals, philosophies, and strategies in a collective quest for racial equality. Students examine the origins, achievements, and failures of the civil rights movement, as well as its legacy in our own time.