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2022-2023 Undergraduate Catalog - SCCC & Day Students [ARCHIVED CATALOG]

HIST 311 - African American History since 1865

Credit Hours: 3

This course will study the history of African Americans from 1865 to the present. It will begin with emancipation and reconstruction and highlight the social, political, and economic transformation of the black community in the late nineteenth century. Major themes of the course will include the Great Migration, World War I, the Depression, World War II, the Cold War, black leadership, and contemporary issues such as, Afrocentricity and the emergence and influence of Hip Hop culture in American society.