History 213 - The History of the Civil Rights Movement

Institution:

Wheaton College - Massachusetts

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Description:

This course will examine, through readings and films, those events that led up to and included the civil rights movement in the United States, as well as those mass movements it inspired throughout the 1960s and the 1970s. We will explore the hopes and dreams, actions and strategies, of the progressive members of this movement, which began decades before sit-ins galvanized student activism. This course will center on the historical context which helped to shape the political and social reality of the times. We will examine how the basic tenets of this movement continue to influence us today. (Dolita Cathcart)

Credits:

3.00

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Lecture

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Institution Website:

www.wheatoncollege.edu

Phone Number:

(508) 285-7722

Regional Accreditation:

New England Association of Schools and Colleges

Calendar System:

Semester

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