2024-2025 Course Catalog

HIST 2100 Black History and Civil Rights in the United States

This course examines the centuries-long freedom and Black civil rights struggle in the United States. An examination of civil rights in United States history provides students with a unique opportunity to journey through critical moments in Black history.  Topics of the course include but are not limited to: the experiences of Black people in the North American colonies, the middle passage, African slavery in the Atlantic World, Black lives in the founding era, 19th- century slavery, abolition, Reconstruction, Jim Crow, redlining, the Civil Rights Movement, the Black Power Movement, and the Black Lives Matter movement.

Credits

3 cr

Prerequisite

ENGC 0960 (C or higher) or ENGC 0900 and READ 0960 (C or higher) or placement into ENGC 1101

Offered

Fall, Spring

MnTC Goals

5, 7