HST 130 - Race & Sex Discrim

Institution:

Harcum College

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Description:

This course examines the legal and social status of women and African-Americans from 1787 to the present. Topics include the institutionalization of slavery, the spread of slavery, abolitionism, sectionalism, legal and social inequality of women to the 1960's, Reconstruction, Jim Crow laws, the suffragist movement, the effects of World War II, modern feminism, and the successes and failures of the Civil Rights and Black Power Movements. Core Diversity Elective

Credits:

3.00

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Instructional Type:

Lecture

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Institution Website:

www.harcum.edu

Phone Number:

(610) 525-4100

Regional Accreditation:

Middle States Association of Colleges and Schools

Calendar System:

Semester

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