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1. The Constitution, Slavery, and Civil Rights, 1787-1861

2. The Civil War, Reconstruction, and the Rise of Jim Crow, 1861-1930

3. The Civil Rights Movement Takes Shape: 1930-1963 (1/3)

4. The Civil Rights Movement Takes Shape, 1930-1963 (2/3)

5. The Civil Rights Movement Takes Shape, 1930-1963 (3/3)

6. The Long Road to Racial Equality, 1963-2024 (1/2)

7. The Long Road to Racial Equality, 1963-2024 (2/2)

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Program 1: The Constitution, Slavery, and Civil Rights, 1787-1861

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Program 1: The Constitution, Slavery, and Civil Rights, 1787-1861

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1. Race and the Constitution

2. Pro-slavery and Anti-Slavery

3. The Catholic “Problem”

4. The Union Disintegrates, 1850-1861

Readings:

Jamelle Bouie, “We Had to Force the Constitution to Accommodate Democracy, and It shows” NYT Oct. 7, 2022

Jill Lepore, “How to Save Off Constitutional Extinction,” NYT, July 1, 2023

"Can the Country Come to Terms With Its Original Sin?" NYT Jan. 17, 2023.

Sean Wilentz, “Was the Constitution Pro-Slavery? Jefferson Davis Thought So. Abraham Lincoln Didn’t,” NYT Nov. 2, 2021

William G. Thomas III, “The Uneasy Alliance Between Frederick Douglass and White Abolitionists” NYT Feb. 8, 2022.

Frederick Douglass, “Fifth of July”

https://housedivided.dickinson.edu/sites/teagle/texts/frederick-douglass-fifth-of-july-speech-1852/

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Programs 2: The Civil War, Reconstruction, and the Rise of Jim Crow, 1861-1930

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Programs 2: The Civil War, Reconstruction, and the Rise of Jim Crow, 1861-1930

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1. Emancipation

2. The Freedom Amendments to the Constitution

3. The Reign of Terror in the South, 1890-1920

4. Racial Segregation and Disfranchisement

5. The Great Migration, 1910-1930

Readings:

Abraham Lincoln, “Emancipation Proclamation”

https://www.archives.gov/exhibits/featured-documents/emancipation-proclamation/transcript.html

Mississippi Black Codes 1865-1866

https://www.blackpast.org/african-american-history/events-african-american-history/mississippi-black-codes-1865-1866/

📖 W.E.B. DuBois, “Reconstruction and its Benefits,” American Historical Review, Vol. 15 (July 1910): 781-89.

Elias Hill’s Testimony before a Congressional Committee Investigating the Ku Klux Klan, February 19, 1872

https://www.digitalhistory.uh.edu/disp_textbook.cfm?smtID=3&psid=513

Representative Robert B. Elliott of South Carolina Demands Federal Civil Rights, January 1874

https://teachingamericanhistory.org/document/speech-on-the-proposed-civil-rights-bill/

Jamelle Bouie, “Why I Keep Coming Back to Reconstruction,” NYT Oct. 25, 2022

Ida B. Wells Reports the Horrors of Lynching in the South, 1892

https://awpc.cattcenter.iastate.edu/2020/09/21/southern-horrors-lynch-law-in-all-its-phases-oct-5-1892/

General Robert Smalls of South Carolina Speaks Out Against Black Disfranchisement in South Carolina, 1895

https://www.zinnedproject.org/news/tdih/sc-constitutional-convention

Mark Twain, “The United States of Lyncherdom” 1901

https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/The_United_States_of_Lyncherdom

📖 Jack Temple Kirby, “The Southern Exodus, 1910-1960,” Journal of Southern Hisotry, XLIX (1983): 585-600.

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Programs 3, 4 and 5: The Civil Rights Movement Takes Shape, 1930-1963

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Programs 3, 4 and 5: The Civil Rights Movement Takes Shape, 1930-1963

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1. Race and the Great Depression: the 1930s

2. The Impact of World War II on Civil Rights

3. The Truman Administration

4. The Eisenhower Administration

5. The Emergence of Martin Luther King, Jr., 1955-1963

Readings:

📖 David Goldfield, “Border Men: Truman, Eisenhower, Johnson, and Civil Rights,” Journal of Southern History, LXXX (February 2014): 7-38.

📖 Harvard Sitkoff, “Harry Truman and the Election of 1948: The Coming of the Age of Civil Rights in American Politics,” Journal of Southern History, XXXVII (1971): 597-616.

📖 Thomas J. Sugrue, “Crabgrass-Roots Politics: Race, Rights, and the Reaction against Liberalism in the Urban North, 1940-1964,” Journal of American History, 82 (Sept. 1995): 551-78.

Melba Pattillo Beals Interview Transcript, 1998 on the Integration of Central High School in Little Rock, Arkansas

https://teacher.scholastic.com/barrier/hwyf/mpbstory/melchat.htm

Martin Luther King, Jr., “Letter from Birmingham Jail,” April 16, 1963

chrome-extension://efaidnbmnnnibpcajpcglclefindmkaj/https://www.csuchico.edu/iege/_assets/documents/susi-letter-from-birmingham-jail.pdf

Martin Luther King, Jr. “I Have a Dream”

https://kr.usembassy.gov/martin-luther-king-jr-dream-speech-1963/

Videos

“Eyes on the Prize”

Episode 1 https://www.dailymotion.com/video/x7t1ylt

Emmett Till

Montgomery Bus Boycott

Little Rock

Episode 2 https://www.dailymotion.com/video/x7t1ym3

The sit-ins

Albany, GA

Episode 3 https://www.dailymotion.com/video/x7t1yy1

Birmingham Jail

Bombing of Birmingham

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1. The Obama Presidency

2. The Backlash

3. George Floyd and “Black Lives Matter”

4. Where We Stand Today

Readings:

“Voting Rights and the Battle Over Elections: What to Know” NYT Dec. 29, 2021

Henry Louis Gates Jr., “Who’s Afraid of Black History?” NYT Feb. 17, 2023.

Jerome Karabel, “This Moment Is the Culmination of a Decades-Long Backlash Against Affirmative Action,” NYT, June 29, 2023.

Editorial. “States Are Silencing the Will of Millions of Voters” NYT June 3, 2023.

“Reparations Are a Financial Quandary. For Democrats, They’re a Political One, Too.” NYT, May 27, 2023.

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Program 6: The Long Road to Racial Equality, 1963-2000

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Program 6: The Long Road to Racial Equality, 1963-2000

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1. The 1964 Civil Rights Act

2. The 1965 Voting Rights Act and the Transformation of American Politics

3. Civil Rights for Women and Immigrants

4. Advances and Retreats, 1980-2000

Readings:

President Lyndon B. Johnson, Speech Before Congress on Voting Rights,” March 15, 1965. https://millercenter.org/the-presidency/presidential-speeches/march-15-1965-speech-congress-voting-rights

📖 Harrell R. Rodgers, Jr., “The Supreme Court and School Desegregation: Twenty Years Later,” Political Science Quarterly, LXXXIX (1974): 751-776.

“Different From the Other Southerners: Jimmy Carter’s Relationship With Black America” NYT Feb. 28, 2023.

Videos:

Episode 4 https://www.dailymotion.com/video/x7t1yy4

Power and the Vote, Elijah Muhammad, Malcolm X

Mississippi Freedom Summer

Episode 5 https://www.dailymotion.com/video/x7t1yy6

Selma