Catalog Description:

Course Content:

A. Antecedents: The African Way of Life
1.Ghana, Mali, Songhay
2.Transplantation of African Culture

B.Slave Trade
1.Latin America
2.British Colonies

C.Slavery and the American Revolution

D.Emergence of the Cotton Kingdom

E..The African American and the Civil War
1.Plantation Life
2.The Quasi-Free
3.Contributions to the Union

F Freedom .
1. Losing the Peace

G. Racial Conflict in the Gilded Age

H. The World Safe for Democracy
1. African American and World War I
2. Losing the Peace Again

I. The Harlem Renaissance

J. The New Deal
1 Roosevelt's Black Cabinet .
2 Negro Relief .
3. Labor and the Unions

K. Two Worlds of Race
1. Trends in Education
2. A Segregated Society

L. Fighting for the Four Freedoms The African American and World War II

M. The Post War Years and the Black Revolution

N. JFK an LBJ
1. The Liberal Promise
2. Civil Rights to Black Power

O. The Present and the Future

P. Students will gain a fundamental understanding of the influences which shaped the
AfricanAmerican experience as well as the AfricanAmerican influences on the broader
American society.

Q.This course investigates the political, social, cultural and economic experiences of the
African American, all of which are a part of the cultural tapestry of the United States.

HISTORY 114B

Catalog Description:

Students will be able to examine, discuss and develop an understanding of the African
American experience from 1900 to present through critical analysis of political, social,
cultural and economic experiences in the United States after Reconstruction.

Course Content: UNDER CONSTRUCTION- SPRING 2006

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