History 206 Spring 2008

DEPARTMENT OF HISTORY AND POLITICAL SCIENCE
HIS 206 | Spring 2008 | Dr. D. Zizwe Poe

HISTORY OF AFRICAN-AMERICAN PEOPLE PART II (1865-1990)
T-Th 12:30 - 1:50 pm | DH 141

Professor D. Zizwe Poe | email: history206@gmail.com
OFFICE: Room 377, Dickey Hall | Extension: 7298
OFFICE HOURS: M W , Noon - 2 pm and Th 3:30 - 5:30 pm

The course commences with a brief overview of the Civil War and the legislative ending of chattel slavery. The impact of 'radical' Reconstruction era and its demise will be examined. The Jim Crow era is examined with an emphasis on the protest movements emerging in the twentieth century. The specific impact of the Pan-African movement and the Garvey movements are explored. The course will also survey the rise and demise of the Civil Rights and Black Power movements. Contemporary issues that feature prominently in the lives of African people in the USA will also be introduced.

Learner Outcomes:

  1. Ability to identify and describe African movements and organizations with a predominant focus on agency within North America after the Civil War.
  2. Ability to identify key persons in the leadership of movements and organizations that serve African interests in the United States of America.
  3. Demonstrate awareness of the impact of African culture on the United States of America.
  4. Demonstrate awareness of the multi-lateral sociological impact that organizations of African People had on United States of America social policy and economy.
  5. Development of critical thinking skills and presentation clarity.
Themes:
  1. The Civil War was the USA's internal social, economic, and political revolution.
  2. The Radical Reconstruction was a brief period access to democratic rights for African descendants and the poor.
  3. The Jim Crow Era and Racial Violence was an era of terror.
  4. Early 20th Century Pan-African initiatives reflected the African response to the Maafa.
  5. USA Civil Rights Movement was the African-American response to racial exclusion.
  6. Black Nationalism and Black Power Movements was the militant response White supremacy.
  7. The 1960s can be considered the USA's Second Reconstruction.
  8. Contemporary Issues and Challenges

Grading formula:

  1. Prompt attendance (10%).
  2. Quizzes, reading and audio-visual answer-sheet assignments worth a total of (40%) of your grade.
  3. There will be 2 (two) tests worth 25 percentage points each for a total of (50%) of your grade.
  4. A = 95-100%; A- = 90-94%; B+ = 85-89%; B = 80-84%; B- = 75-79%; C+ = 70-74%; C = 65-69%; C- = 60-64%; D = 55-59%; F = 0-54%
  5. All written assignments, after being previewed, are to be emailed through WebCt submission buttons as a 'rich text format' attachment with a digital backup sent to history206@gmail.com. For the backup, the assignment title must be in the subject heading. A hard copy of all written assignments must be brought to class to assist your discussion. ALL Emailed work should include the class and date of assignment in the subject heading. THE PROFESSOR MUST NOT BE THE FIRST PERSON TO READ YOUR WRITTEN WORK! Read your work; take it to a person with the appropriate skill level to check it (the Learning Resource Center in Dickey Hall or a certified tutor); then submit it.

Names, Terms, and Concepts To Be Covered;

African African-American
American Reconstruction 1
Civil War Reconstruction 2
Afrocentricity Freedman's Bureau
Pan-Africanism Industrial capitalists
Seminoles Buffalo Soldiers (9th & 10th Calvary; 24th & 25th Infantry)
Frederick Douglass Tilden Hayes compromise
Lucy Laney Agricultural capitalists
Amy Ashwood Booker T. Washington
Amy Jacques W. E. B. Du Bois
Marcus Garvey Universal Negro Improvement Association (UNIA)
Shirley Graham Southern Christian Leadership Conference (SCLC)
George Padmore Student Non-Violent Coordinating Committee (SNCC)
Kwame Nkrumah Martin Luther King, Jr.
Lincoln University Black Panther Party - (Loudes County)
Jim Crow Era John Lewis
'Red Summer' Kwame Ture
Manifest Destiny Black Panther Party - (California launched)
Monroe Doctrine Black Panther Party - (Khalid era)
Ida B. Wells Nation of Islam (NOI)
Huey Newton Organization of Afro-American Unity (OAAU)
Khalid Muhammad Congressional Black Caucus
Elijah Muhammad Adam Clayton Powell, Jr.
Malcolm X Historic Black Colleges and Universities (HBCUs)
Harlem Renaissance National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP)
lynching Horace Mann Bond
Black Power Black Nationalism
Black Studies Urban rebellions

Required Text for the course:

  • African American History: A journey of liberation by Molefi Kete Asante - units 8-15
  • The Struggle for Freedom: A history of African-Americans by Clayborne Carson, Emma J. Lapsansky-Werner, and Gary B. Nash; chapters 10 - 21

Supplemental handouts and assigned on-line material:

Other Source Text and Audio-Visual materials:

From Slavery to Freedom by Franklyn and Moss
Black Reconstruction by Du Bois
Pan-Africanism from Idea to Movement by Esedebe
Encyclopedia Africana by Microsoft
  • Select clips from the Jim Crow series by PBS
  • Eyes on the Prize I (2 selected)
  • Eyes on the Prize II (2 selected)
  • Aftermath:
  • Make it Plain
Martin Luther King, Jr. & Malcolm X speeches
Select songs from Billy Holliday, Public Enemy, KRS-ONE, The Coup, and Dead Prez
  • Slideshows, sound files, and articles posted through WebCt
WEEK 1 ------ [INTRODUCTION]

January 10

Introduction to Course syllabus and class requirements; Web and email procedures

WEEK 2 ------ [CIVIL WAR]

Text material to be covered:

Asante: Chapters 24 - 26
Carson, Lapsaansky-Werner, & Nash Chapter 10 - Civil War and the Promises of Freedom: The Turbulent 1860s

Presentation Sources:

  • Slide Show: Civil War by D. Zizwe Poe
  • Carson, Lapsaansky-Werner, & Nash Chapter 10 - Civil War and the Promises of Freedom: The Turbulent 1860s
  • Franklin & Moss Chapter 11 - Civil War

January 15

  • Brief Review of the Afrocentric Historical Method
  • Civil War (1): Causes and description

January 17

WEEK 3 ------ [RADICAL RECONSTRUCTION 1 - A]

Text material to be covered:

Asante: Chapters 27: Expanding Civil Rights
Asante: Chapters 28: Reconstruction
Carson, Lapsaansky-Werner, & Nash Chapter 10 - Civil War and the Promises of Freedom: The Turbulent 1860s
Carson, Lapsaansky-Werner, & Nash Chapter 11 - Post-Civil War Reconstruction: A New National Era

Presentation Sources:

  • Franklin & Moss Chapter 12 - The Effort to Attain Peace
  • Franklin & Moss Chapter 13 - Losing the Peace
  • Carson, Lapsaansky-Werner, & Nash Chapter 10 - Civil War and the Promises of Freedom: The Turbulent 1860s
  • Carson, Lapsaansky-Werner, & Nash Chapter 11 - Post-Civil War Reconstruction: A New National Era
  • Du Bois - Black Reconstruction

January 22

What was Reconstruction - essentially?

January 24

What was Reconstruction - formally?

WEEK 4 ------ [RADICAL RECONSTRUCTION 1 - B]

[NEO-ENSLAVEMENT AND TERRORISM]

Text material to be covered:

Asante: Chapters 29: Reconstruction Ends
|Asante: Chapters 30: African American Workers Organize
Carson, Lapsaansky-Werner, & Nash Chapter 12 - The Post-Reconstruction Era

Presentation Sources:

  • Franklin & Moss Chapter 12 - The Effort to Attain Peace
  • Franklin & Moss Chapter 13 - Losing the Peace
  • Carson, Lapsaansky-Werner, & Nash Chapter 12 - The Post-Reconstruction Era
  • Du Bois - Black Reconstruction

January 29

How was Reconstruction reversed?

January 31

Why was Reconstruction reversed?
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WEEK 5 ------ [JIM CROW ERA AND RACIAL VIOLENCE]

Text material to be covered:

Asante: Chapters 31: African Americans in the Spanish American War
Asante: Chapters 32: African American Leaders Speak Out
Asante: Chapters 33: Violent Tides of Change|
Asante: Chapters 34: Segregation
Carson, Lapsaansky-Werner, & Nash Chapter 12 - The Post-Reconstruction Era

Audio-visual to be covered:

Jim Crow videos

Presentation Sources:

  • Carson, Lapsaansky-Werner, & Nash Chapter 12 - The Post-Reconstruction Era
  • Franklin & Moss Chapter 14 - Philanthropy and Self-Help
  • Franklin & Moss Chapter 15 - The Color Line
  • Franklin & Moss Chapter 16 - In the Pursuit of Democracy
  • Franklin & Moss Chapter 17 - Democracy Escapes

February 5

  • The African-American experience during the Jim Crow era
  • Jim Crow laws and vigilante racial terrorism

February 7

  • The African-American initiative during the Jim Crow era
  • The range of African initiatives and responses

WEEK 6 ------ [EARLY 20TH CENTURY PAN-AFRICAN INITIATIVES - 1]

Text material to be covered:

Asante: Chapters 36: The Growth of Pan-Africanism
Asante: Chapters 37: "Up You Mighty Race! You Can Accomplish What You Will!"
Asante: Chapters 38: The Harlem Renaissance 1925 - 1940

 Presentation Sources:

February 12

The Pan-African idea

February 14

The Pan-African initiative

WEEK 7 ------ [EARLY 20TH CENTURY PAN-AFRICAN INITIATIVES - 2]

Text material to be covered:

Asante: Chapters 35: African Americans in World War 1
Asante: Chapters 39: African Americans and the Communist Party
Asante: Chapters 40: The Great Depression
Carson, Lapsaansky-Werner, & Nash Chapter 13 - "Colored" Becomes "Negro" in the Progressive Era
Carson, Lapsaansky-Werner, & Nash Chapter 15 - The New Politics of the Great Depression

Presentation Sources:

  • Carson, Lapsaansky-Werner, & Nash Chapter 15 - The New Politics of the Great Depression
  • Garvey DVD and Video Clips
  • Du Bois Video Clips
  • Esedebe: Chapter 1 Origins of Pan-African Ideas
  • Esedebe: Chapter 2 From Idea to Movement

February 19

The Garvey Movement of the masses

February 21

The Pan-African conferences of the intelligentsia

WEEK 8 ------ [USA CIVIL RIGHTS]

Text material to be covered:

Asante: Chapters 41: Progress on All Fronts
Asante: Chapters 42: Through the Storm -- World War 2 and Korea
Carson, Lapsaansky-Werner, & Nash Chapters 17: Emergence of a Mass Movement Against Jim Crow

Presentation Sources:

February 26

Midterm

February 28

Factors leading to the Civil Rights Movement

WEEK 9 ------ [USA CIVIL RIGHTS]

Text material to be covered:

Asante: Chapters 43: Contesting the Meaning of Democracy
Asante: Chapters 44: The Movement Expands
Asante: Chapters 45: The March on Washington
Asante: Chapters 46: The Move Toward Militance
Carson, Lapsaansky-Werner, & Nash Chapters 18: Marching Toward Freedom, 1961 - 1966

Presentation Sources:

March 4

Southern Christian Leadership Conference

March 6

Student Non-Violent Coordinating Committee

WEEK 10 ------ [BLACK NATIONALISM]

Text material to be covered:

Asante: Chapters 47: Focus on the Viet Nam War
Asante: Chapters 48: Radical Ideas Take Hold
Asante: Chapters 49: The Black Panther Party
Asante: Chapters 50: The Spread of Militance
Carson, Lapsaansky-Werner, & Nash Chapters 19: Resistance, Repression, and Retrenchment, 1967 - 1978
Carson, Lapsaansky-Werner, & Nash Chapters 20: The Search for New Directions During a Conservative Era

Presentation Sources:

March 11

Malcolm X and the Nation of Islam

March 13

Malcolm X and the Organization of Afro-American Unity

WEEK 11 ------ [BLACK POWER]

Text material to be covered:

Asante: Chapters 51: The Black Arts Movement
Asante: Chapters 52: The Black Studies Movement
Carson, Lapsaansky-Werner, & Nash Chapters 19: Resistance, Repression, and Retrenchment, 1967 - 1978

Presentation Sources:

March 18

Various meanings of 'Black Power'

March 20

Black Panther Party and Cointelpro

WEEK 12 ------ [SECOND RECONSTRUCTION]

Text material to be covered:

Asante: Chapters 53: Affirmative Action
Asante: Chapters 54: An Unfinished Agenda
Asante: Chapters 55: The Call to Activism
Carson, Lapsaansky-Werner, & Nash Chapters 20: The Search for New Directions During a Conservative Era, 1979 - 1991

Presentation Sources:

March 25

Comparative beginnings to the earlier reconstruction

March 27

Comparative endings to the earlier reconstruction

WEEK 13 ------ [CONTEMPORARY ISSUES]

Text material to be covered:

Asante: Chapters 56: The Corridors of Power
Asante: Chapters 57: The Dawn of a New Day
Carson, Lapsaansky-Werner, & Nash Chapters 21: Continuing Struggles over Rights and Identitiy, 1992 - Present

April 1

The launching of ideological organizations

April 3

The explosion and maturation of the Hiphop movement

WEEK 14 ------ [CONTEMPORARY CHALLENGES]

April 8

Semester Review

April 10

Semester Review

WEEK 15 ------ [CONTEMPORARY CHALLENGES]

April 15

  • Review for final

April 17

  • Review for final

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Finals Week