This course will examine the Civil Rights Movement in America. The movement changed those who participated in it, made America a more democratic society, gave rise to a host of other movements that transformed the face of American culture, and influenced a new generation of American leadership. As a critical examination, the period from 1955-1965 receives special attention, but the roots of the freedom struggle in an earlier era and the effect of the movement on recent American history also warrants investigation. This course will use primary source documents, film, interpretive literature, and music in order to fully study the most powerful mass protest movement in modem U.S. history. The course will be presented in a seminar style.
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