HIST 30B African-American History Since 1877

Units: 3
Advisories: ENG 1A with a grade of “C” or better and ability to read at the 12th grade level.
This course is an examination of African American history from Reconstruction to the present. Some topics of key interest include the following: the “Jim Crow” period; the careers of Booker T. Washington and W.E.B. Du Bois; the post-World War II Civil Rights Movement; the Black Power Era and the African American experience in contemporary America. This course fulfills the Delta College American Institutions (Area 4) requirement for the associate degree general education pattern. It can be applied toward the Social, Political, and Economic Institutions requirement (Area D) in the CSU general education pattern as well as the American Institutions graduation requirement. This course also fulfills the California State requirements in U.S. History and Institutions and California State and Local Government for the UC and CSU institutions (Title 5, Section 40404). (UC, CSU, C-ID HIST 140)