HIST 4700 - African American History Since 1890

Examines the emergence of segregation, the alternative strategies advanced by Ida B. Wells, Booker T. Washington, and W.E.B. DuBois, the 20th-century Great Migration, and the subsequent urban political/sociocultural movements of the 1910s and 1930s, World War II, the rise of militancy as manifested in Black Power, the state of inter- and intra-race relations since the 1970s.