3:35-5:30     T     BH321

Topic:  The Southern Civil Rights Movement, 1865-1965
A portion of the above section reserved for majors
Above section COAS intensive writing section and also
requires registration in COAS W333

While many Americans think of the 1950s and 1960s as the heyday of the
Southern Civil Rights Movement, this seminar suggests that they were
the culmination of a century-long struggle that was born with
emancipation during the Civil War.  The course will be divided into
four parts:  Emancipation and Reconstruction; 1860s-1870s; the Modern
Movement; 1950s-1960s.  Weekly class discussions will be based on a
variety of sources including historical monographs, fiction,
nonfiction, autobiography and memoir, music, and film.  Films may
include Birth of a Nation and Gone with the Wind.  Grades will be
based on class discussions and several papers, one of which may be
based on oral history interviews.

Book list: Eric Foner: A Short History of Reconstruction
Leon Litwack: Black Southerners in the Age of Jim Crow
W.E.B. DuBois: The Souls of Black Folks
Walter White: The Fire in the Flint
Robin D.G. Kelley: Hammer & Hoe: Alabama Communists During the Great
Depression
Taylor Branch: Parting the Waters: America During the King Years,
1954-1963