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AFAM360

The Black Sixties: Civil Rights to Black Power AFAM360 SP

Crosslistings: AMST361, WMST360

Spring 97 Availability (Last Updated on Thu Apr 17 05:00:17 EDT 1997 )

Section  Limit  Enrollment  Available
  01       25      0         25

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 sixties 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 sixties, 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 sixties.

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: Seminar

REGISTRATION INFORMATION

Level: UG Credit: 1.00 Gen Ed Area & Dept: SBS GOVT

Prerequisites: AFAM201

Section 01: Rushdy, A; Times: .T..... 7:00PM;; Grading Mode: A/F; Registration Preference (1 high to 6 low, 0=Excluded) Sr: 1, Jr: 1, So: 0, Fr: 0; Major Preference Given

Last Updated on MAR-10-1997

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