| Session | Topic | Lecture Materials |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Creating a new society | Exercise |
| 2 | Lincoln's plan and its critics | Lecture 2 notes |
| 3 | Historical interpretations of Reconstruction | Lecture 3 notes |
| 4 | Presidential and Congressional (Radical) Reconstruction | Lecture 4 notes |
| 5 | The end of Reconstruction | Lecture 5 notes |
| 6 | The development of Jim Crow | Lecture 6 notes |
| 7 | Uplifting the race | Lecture 7 notes |
| 8 | The Migration | Lecture 8 notes |
| 9 | Differing political responses to the African American condition | Lecture 9 notes |
| 10 | The New Negro | Lecture 10 notes |
| 11 | Scottsboro Boys | Lecture 11 notes |
| 12 | March on Washington (1941) | Lecture 12 notes |
| 13 | The postwar period | Lecture 13 notes / Activity |
| 14 | Two case studies: Emmett Till and the "Kissing Case" | Lecture 14 notes |
| 15 | Activism choices | Lecture 15 notes |
| 16 | Differences between the North and South | Lecture 16 notes |
| 17 | Civil Rights Act of 1964 | Lecture 17 notes |
| 18 | Voting Rights Act of 1965 | Lecture 18 notes |
| 19 | Black Power | Lecture 19 notes |