Calendar

Week Topic  Readings 
1 Introduction
2 Free at last! Cimbala, "The Freedmen's Bureau, the Freedmen, and Sherman's Grant in Reconstruction Georgia, 1865-1867"
3 The more things change, the more they stay the same Ross, "Justice Miller's Reconstruction"; Dailey, "Deference and Violence in the Postbellum Urban South"
4 Racial uplift and the "Twin Towers" Phillips, AlabamaNorth; Harris, "Etiquette, Lynching, and Racial Boundaries in Southern History"
5 Migration  Trotter, Black Migration in Historical Perspective
6
Robeson, Here I Stand
7 Midterm Examination
8
Moore, To Place Our Deeds, 1-150
9 Conflict, again Lawson, "Freedom Then, Freedom Now"; Payne, "Debating the Civil Rights Movement"; Kelley, "We Are Not What We Seem"
10
Hill, The Deacons of Defense, 1-149
11 Everything but the burden Hill, The Deacons of Defense, 150-275
12
Griffin, Black Like Me
13 Lasting effects Pascoe, "Miscegenation Law, Court Cases, and Ideologies of 'Race' in Twentieth-Century America" 
14 Cultural forms   
15 Final Examination   

 

 

Citation: Pierce, R. (2006, September 05). Calendar. Retrieved February 13, 2012, from Notre Dame OpenCourseWare Web site: http://ocw.nd.edu/history/african-american-history-ii/Calendar.html.
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