Civil Rights Movement

This course will survey the modern civil rights movement in the U.S. from World War II until the mid-1970s. Subjects will include the origins of the civil rights movement, its major victories, and its shortcomings, as well as the struggle for desegregation, voting rights, and economic assistance. How variables of race, class, and gender informed the evolution of the movement in the North and South, and how the movement transformed the cultural and political landscape willl also be examined.