HIS 205 - African American History 2

1. Explain the development of Western racism as relates to African Americans.
2. Discuss the aftermath of slavery and the promises unfulfilled.
3. Summarize all aspects of the Reconstruction Movement.
4. Outline the rise and fall of Black voting power in the South.
5. Relate how the American society granted freedom but not equality to Blacks
6. Analyze racism in all its manifestations.
7. Discuss the development of Black ghettos throughout the United States
8. Describe the conditions under which Blacks struggled for equality in the United States.
9. Compare Southern and Northern racist practices.
10. Identify Black advancements in the United States.
11. Articulate views of the National and local Civil Rights Movement.
12. Discuss how the first African American U.S. President, Barack Obama, was elected and the impact of that election.

1. Review of African American history before 1865
2. The meaning of freedom for Blacks
3. Reconstruction and the rise of Black voting power
4. The rise of the KKK and other terror groups
5. How the North aided and abetted the rise of Jim Crow Laws and customs
6. The Great Migration and the formation of Northern Black Ghettoes
7. Conditions Black faced in their attempt to be treated equally
8. Police and Blacks. Who do they protect?
9. Contributions of Blacks to American society
10. The Tuskegee Experiment and the Tuskegee Airmen
11. Black participation in the wars of America and the discrimination they faced during and after these wars
12. The destruction of Black Wall Street and other self-sufficient Black communities
13. The Civil Rights Movement
14. The Black Lives Matter movement
15. Barack Obama his victories and defeats and his treatment by Whites
16. Where do we go from here?

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