3 HOURS, 3 CREDITS African Americans and the development of the United States from 1619 to the present. A survey course exploring the African origins of African Americans and examining slavery, the Abolitionist movement, the Civil War, Reconstruction, segregation, African-American migration from the South, urbanization, the Civil Rights movement, contemporary issues and events, and African-American cultural expressions, all within the context of American social history.

This course examines the Black American experience to present times. Topics for consideration include the African heritage, the slave trade, slavery as an institution, the civil and political status of Blacks during the Civil War and Reconstruction eras, the full development of economic, social and political segregation and the modern protest movement.