HISTORY 115 — Afro-American History Since 1865
Reconstruction period after the Civil War; black politics in the new South; rise of Jim Crow sentiment; alliance of northern industry and southern Bourbonism; early northward migrations and urban culture; growth of civil rights organizations; W. E. B. DuBois and Booker T. Washington; blacks in World Wars I and II; post-war developments. Writing assignments, as appropriate to the discipline, are part of the course.