HIST 378 - The Segregated South

3 Credit(s)

This course explores life under the system of legal segregation that existed in the American South from the late 19th century to the passage of the Civil Rights Act in 1964. Topics addressed include the sharecropping system, disfranchisement, segregation, and lynching, as well as ways in which black southerners resisted these economic, political, legal, and extralegal obstacles to racial equality in this period.