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Academic Year 2000/2001
The Black 60s: Civil Rights to Black Power
AFAM 360 SP
This course will explore the development of African American political activism and political theory from 1960 to 1972, with particular focus on student movements in these years. We will familiarize ourselves with the
history of political activism and
agitation for civil rights and social equality during the 60s by examining the formation of specific organizations, especially the Student Nonviolence Coordinating Committee and the Black Panther Party, and tracing the
changes in their political agendas.
While our primary focus will be African American social movements in the 60s, we will also situate these movements in terms of the long history of African American political struggles for equality and in terms of other
predominantly white student
movements in the 60s.
MAJOR READINGS
Elaine Brown, A TASTE OF POWER: A BLACK WOMAN'S STORY Clayborne Carson, IN STRUGGLE: SNCC AND THE BLACK AWAKENING OF THE 1960s Vicki Crawford, Ed., WOMEN IN THE CIVIL RIGHTS MOVEMENT Angela Davis, AN AUTOBIOGRAPHY
David Farber, THE SIXTIES: FROM
MEMORY TO HISTORY Philip Foner, Ed., THE BLACK PANTHERS SPEAK David Garrow, BEARING THE CROSS James Miller, DEMOCRACY IS IN THE STREETS: FROM PORT HURON TO THE SIEGE OF CHICAGO Huey Newton, TO DIE FOR THE PEOPLE:
THE WRITINGS OF HUEY P. NEWTON
Bobby Seale, SEIZE THE TIME: THE STORY OF THE BLACK PANTHER PARTY AND HUEY P. NEWTON Kwame Ture and Charles Hamilton, BLACK POWER and other materials to be announced.
EXAMINATIONS AND ASSIGNMENTS
To be announced.
ADDITIONAL REQUIREMENTS and/or COMMENTS
Unless preregistered students attend the first class meeting or communicate directly with the instructor prior to the first class, they will be dropped from the class list. NOTE: Students must still submit a completed
Drop/Add form to the Registrar's
Office.
COURSE FORMAT:
Lecture
REGISTRATION INFORMATION
Level:
UGRD
Credit:
1
Gen Ed Area Dept:
SBS GOVT
Grading Mode:
Student Option
Prerequisites:
AFAM201
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Last Updated on MAR-26-2001
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