This class will be primarily a lecture class, with opportunities for questions and answers.
Review handouts will be distributed as well as bibliographies of outside resources for those students who want to cover specific topics in greater depth.

Topics covered will include the following:
Week 1:
U. S. Civil War
Emancipation Proclamation
Post-Civil War South
Racial Terrorism
Civil Rights Act of 1866
Amendments to U. S. Constitution

Week 2:
Reconstruction Period
Jim Crow Laws
Proliferation of...