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3.00 Credits
The education of blacks from Reconstruction to 1954. Includes public schools, colleges, and non-school education. The involvement of religious associations, philanthropic organizations, the Freedman's Bureau, the Black church, and the Federal Government will also be discussed. (Gen.Ed. HS,U)
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3.00 Credits
Throughout the era of the Civil Rights and Black Power Movements, young people were often in the vanguard impacting and affecting change, as leaders and as major participants in the struggles for social justice. Young people, including elementary, high school, college, and university students throughout the country, willingly put their lives and academic futures at risk for the purposes of a greater good. This course will cover student activism during the major turning points from the 1950s through the '70s. Topics to be covered will include: the 1954 Brown v. the Board of Education decision, the Montgomery Movement, the Little Rock Nine, the Freedom Rides, the Sit-In Movement, and the Black Studies Movement. The course will look at student activism of such Civil Rights and Black Power Movement groups as the NAACP, SCLC, NAG, SNCC, CORE, and the Black Panther Party. Attention also will be given to the groups formed by the Black Feminists during the 1970s.
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3.00 Credits
University of Massachusetts Amherst has not provided a description for this course
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3.00 Credits
University of Massachusetts Amherst has not provided a description for this course
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2.00 Credits
University of Massachusetts Amherst has not provided a description for this course
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1.00 - 6.00 Credits
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3.00 Credits
Expository writing focusing primarily on argumentative and narrative essays. Discussion and practice of logic?inductive and deductive reasoning?as it relates as it relates to the argumentative essay form. Topics as thesis on main idea, organization, style, unity, supporting evidence, avoiding logical fallacies, and basic writing mechanics, including constructing sentences, paragraphing, transitions, and correct grammar.
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3.00 Credits
An intensive survey of the life and works of Langston Hughes. (Gen.Ed. AL, U)
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3.00 Credits
The contrasting philosophies of Malcolm X and Martin Luther King, Jr. on race and racism, non-violence and self-defense, integration and separatism, Christianity and Islam; their interaction and involvement with the Civil Rights Movement; the northern and southern political and social culture that shaped their thoughts and world-views; and their changing conceptions of the appropriate tactics and strategy for the black freedom struggle in America.
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3.00 Credits
University of Massachusetts Amherst has not provided a description for this course
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