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The Black 60s: Civil Rights to Black Power
AFAM360 SP

Crosslistings: AMST361,WMST360

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 st udent 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.

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

Last Updated on MAR-24-2000

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