HIST 315(F) The Civil Rights Movement*

The course will examine and assess the civil rights movement in the United States. We will discuss how a broad-based coalition of Blacks, liberal whites, labor unions, and other important groups cooperated during the 1950s and 1960s to end the bondage of secondclass citizenship imposed on Black Americans for nearly a century. We will trace the development of the movement from the landmark Brown decision in 1954 through the passage of the Voting Rights Act of 1965. The course also will focus upon the impact of the race riots of the late 1960s and the transition from civil rights to Black Power. The course will conclude with an assessment of the 1970s and with a discussion of the factors which decelerated the civil rights movement. Lecture/discussion course.
Requirements: two exams and one research paper.
Group A

Hour: DICKERSON