Course Texts:

Painter, Creating Black Americans (CBA)

Hill and Dodson, The Murder of Emmett Till (MET)

Handouts:

Smith, A Narrative

Douglass, Autobiography

From an Old World to A New

Week one-29, 31 August: "Africa and Black Americans"

-CBA: chapter one

-Smith

-Equiano

-The Worlds of the Slave Trade

-Beyond the Middle Passage (all)

-The Black Atlantic (episodes 1-9)

Week two-7, 12 September: "Captives Transported"

-CBA: chapter two

-Smith

-Williams-slavery

-Goree: Door of No Return

-A Son of Africa

-Slavery America's Main Historical Event

Week three-14, 19 September “A Diasporic People”

-CBA: chapter three

Legacies of Slavery

Week four-21, 26 September: “Those Who Were Free”

-CBA: chapter four

-Ruggles-Connecticut

Week five-28 Sept, 3 October: “Those Who Were Enslaved”

-CBA: chapter five

-Douglass (1-44)

Noble, The Price of Blood

Week six-5, 10 October: “Civil War and Emancipation”

-CBA: chapter six

From Freedmen to Citizens?

Week seven-12, 17 October: “The Larger Reconstruction”

-CBA: chapter seven

Foner, Lessons of Reconstruction

Reconstruction, episode 2

Week eight-19, 24 October: “Hard-Working People in the Depths of Segregation”

-CBA: chapter eight

MET: 77-82

Reconstruction, episode 3

Ida B. Wells

Week nine-26, 31 October: “The New Negro”

-CBA: chapter nine

MET: 82-85

Locke, "New Negro"

Tulsa, 1921

Rights to Fight For

Week ten-2, 7 November: “Radicals and Democrats”

-CBA: chapter ten

Week eleven-9, 14 November: “The Second World War and the Promise of Internationalism”

-CBA: chapter eleven

Week twelve-16, 21 November: “Cold War Civil Rights”

-CBA: chapter twelve

MET: 5-73

Week thirteen-28, 30 November

Research Week

Week fourteen-5, 7 December: “Protest Makes a Civil Rights Revolution”

-CBA: chapter thirteen

Week fifteen-12, 14 December

-research paper due

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