2012-2013 Academic Catalog

Apr 29, 2024

2012-2013 Academic Catalog [ARCHIVED CATALOG]

HIST 223 - The Civil Rights Movement

Type of Course: Lecture, Discussion

Examines roots and evolution of the civil-rights movement from the 1930s to the present. Includes civil rights as a grassroots movement; the New Deal, World War II and civil rights; emergence of Martin Luther King; women and the civil-rights movement; black power; the disintegration of the movement; the meaning of civil rights today.