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| THUR JAN 19 | Introduction to the Course |
Review syllabus and discuss research topics |
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| TUES JAN 24 | No Class |
| Read material for Thursday; select court case for report; consider topic for research paper. |
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THUR JAN 26 | American Slavery, American Freedom: The Origins of Race in Early America |
Reading
Barbara Jeanne Fields, “Slavery, Race and Ideology in the United States of America,” New Left Review I/181 (May-June 1990): 95-118. | pdf |
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| TUES JAN 31 | Thomas Jefferson, Sally Hemings, and Race in the Revolutionary Era |
Reading
Thomas Jefferson, Draft of the Declaration of Independence | html
Thomas Jefferson, Notes on the State of Virginia, Query 14 | pdf
Annette Gordon-Reed. “'The Treaty' and ‘Did They Love Each Other?'” from The Hemingses of Monticello: An American Family (W.W. Norton, 2008). | pdf | small pdf
Optional Resources
Paul Finkelman, “Thomas Jefferson and Antislavery: The Myth Goes On,” Virginia Magazine of History and Biography 102 (Apr. 1994): 193- 228. | pdf
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| THUR FEB 2 | The Antebellum Era: Slavery, Abolitionism, and "Race Science" |
| Reading
Peter Wallenstein, "Nat Turner," American National Biography | pdf
Roy E. Finkenbine, "Frederick Douglass," American National Biography | pdf
Louis Menand, “Morton, Agassiz, and the Origins of Scientific Racism in the United States,” The Journal of Blacks in Higher Education 34 (Winter, 2001-2002): 110-113. | pdf
Optional Resources
Film Excerpt in Class: Africans in America: Fanny Kemble, Pierce Butler, and the slaves on Butler Island | html
Film Excerpt in Class: Race the Power of an Illusion, excerpts from episode 2 | html
Brian Wallis, “Black Bodies, White Science: Louis Agassiz's Slave Daguerreotypes,” American Art 9 (1995): 38-61. | pdf
Case Report Options
Dred Scott v. Sandford (1857) |
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| TUES FEB 7 | The Civil War and Reconstruction, 1861-1877 |
Reading
Adam Fairclough, "The Failure of Reconstruction and the Triumph of White Supremacy,” section one, "Emancipation and Reconstruction," from Better Day Coming: Blacks and Equality.
Eric Foner, "The New View of Reconstruction," American Heritage | html
Jane Monday, “Joshua Houston,” Handbook of Texas online | html
Ricky Floyd Dobbs, "Walker County Rebellion," Handbook of Texas online | html |
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| THUR FEB 9 | The Emergence of the New South, 1877-1900 |
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Adam Fairclough, "The Failure of Reconstruction and the Triumph of White Supremacy,” remaining sections, from Better Day Coming: Blacks and Equality.
Adam Fairclough, “Ida B. Wells and the Campaign Against Lynching,” from Better Day Coming: Blacks and Equality.
Without Sanctuary: Photographs and Postcards of Lynching in America | html
Case Report Options
Civil Rights Cases (1883)
Plessy v. Ferguson (1896)
Williams v. Mississippi (1898) |
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| TUES FEB 14 | Booker T. Washington and W.E.B. Du Bois |
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Adam Fairclough, “Booker T. Washington and the Strategy of Accommodation," and "The Rise of the NAACP," from Better Day Coming: Blacks and Equality.
Primary Sources
ACRM 1.1 Booker T. Washington, "Speech at the Atlanta Exposition, September 18, 1895." | pdf
ACRM 1.2 W. E. B. Du Bois, "On Mr. Booker T. Washington and Others," The Souls of Black Folk. | pdf
Available Resources
Film Excerpt in Class: Rise and Fall of Jim Crow, Vol. 1 | html
Case Report Options
McCabe v. Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe Railway Company (1914)
Guinn v. United States (1915) |
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| THUR FEB 16 | World War I and the Struggle for Equality |
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Adam Fairclough, “The Great War and Racial Equality," from Better Day Coming: Blacks and Equality.
C. Calvin Smith, "The Houston Riot of 1917 Revisited," Houston Review 13, no 2 (1991): 84-101. | pdf
Available Resources
Walker County Lynching and John Shillady in Austin, Texas | pdf
Longview, Texas Race Riot | html
Case Report Options
Buchanan v. Warley (1917)
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| TUES FEB 21 | The New Negro |
Reading
David Levering Lewis, "Introduction," from The Portable Harlem Renaissance Reader (Penguin, 1995). | pdf
Adam Fairclough, “Marcus Garvey and the UNIA," from Better Day Coming: Blacks and Equality.
Victoria W. Wolcott, “Defending the Home: Ossian Sweet and the Struggle against Segregation in 1920s Detroit,” OAH Magazine of History 7 (Summer, 1993): 23-27. | pdf
Case Report Options
Moore v. Dempsey (1923)
The Sweet Trials (1925-26)
Corrigan and Curtis v. Buckley (1926) |
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| THUR FEB 23 | NO CLASS |
Read material for Tuesday and work on research paper. |
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| TUES FEB 28 | The 1930s: Depression, Radicalism, and the Scottsboro Trial |
Reading
Adam Fairclough, “The Radical Thirties," from Better Day Coming: Blacks and Equality.
Available Resources Film Excerpt in Class: Scottsboro: An American Tragedy | html
Case Report Options
Powell v. Alabama (1932)
Norris v. Alabama (1935)
Hocutt v. Wilson (1933)
Breedlove v. Suttles (1937)
State of Missouri Ex Rel. Gaines v. Canada (1938) |
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| THUR MAR 1 | The NAACP and the Struggle for Equality |
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Adam Fairclough, “The NAACP's Challenge to White Supremacy, 1935-45," from Better Day Coming: Blacks and Equality.
ACRM 2.4 Genna Rae McNeil, "Charles Hamilton Houston: Social Engineer for Civil Rights," in John Hope Franklin and August Meier, eds., Black Leaders of the Twentieth Century, (221-240) University of Illinois Press, 1982. | pdf
Available Resources
Film Excerpt in Class: The Road to Brown | html
Case Report Options
Nixon v. Herndon (1927)
Nixon v. Condon (1932)
Grovey v. Townsend (1935)
Smith v. Allwright (1944)
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| TUES MAR 6 | Double Victory: The Black Experience in World War II |
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Thomas Cripps and David Culbert, "The Negro Soldier (1944): Film Propaganda in Black and White," American Quarterly 31 (Winter, 1979): 616-640 | pdf
Primary Sources
ACRM 1.5 Asa Philip Randolph, "Call to Negro America to March on Washington for Jobs and Equal Participation and National Defense on July 1, 1941," The Black Worker, May 1941. | pdf
ACRM 2.5 Thurgood Marshall, "The Legal Attack to Secure Civil Rights," Speech delivered July 13, 1944 at the NAACP Wartime Conference. (Estate of Thurgood Marshall). | pdf
Available Resources
Digital Module: Why We Fight: The American People and World War II | html
Film Excerpt in Class: The Negro Soldier (1944) | html
Case Report Option
Mitchell v. United States (1941)
Smith v. Texas (1940); Hill v. Texas (1942); Atkins v. Texas (1945) |
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| THUR MAR 8 | MID-TERM EXAM |
Review Sheet will be available here.
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| TUES MAR 13 | SPRING BREAK |
| Work on research paper. |
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| THUR MAR 15 | SPRING BREAK |
| Work on research paper. |
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| TUES MAR 20 | Truman and a Turbulent Era , 1945-1953 |
Reading
Adam Fairclough, “Two Steps Forward and One Step Back, 1946-55," from Better Day Coming: Blacks and Equality.
Available Resources
William Bradford Huie, "The Shocking Story of Approved Killing in Mississippi" | html
Case Report Option
Morgan v. Virginia (1946)
Sipuel v. Oklahoma State Board of Regents (1948)
Henderson v. United States (1950)
McLaurin v. Oklahoma State Regents for Higher Education (1950)
Sweatt v. Painter (1950)
Shelley v. Kraemer (1948)
Barrows v. Jackson (1953)
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| THUR MAR 22 | Brown v. Board of Education |
Reading
ACRM 3.1 Waldo Martin, "Shades of Brown: Black Freedom, White Supremacy, and the Law." Brown v. Board of Education, A Brief History with Documents. (1-41) Bedford Books. | pdf
Brown v. Board of Education (1954)
Brown v. Board of Education II (1955) |
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| TUES MAR 27 | Massive Resistance and the Little Rock Crisis |
Reading
Jeffrey L. Littlejohn, "Massive Resistance" in the Encyclopedia of African American History: From the Age of Segregation to the Twenty-First Century, edited by Paul Finkelman (New York: Oxford University Press, 2009). | pdf
Jeffrey L. Littlejohn, “The Southern Manifesto” in Milestone Documents in American History, edited by Paul Finkelman, (Pasadena, CA: Salem Press, 2008). | pdf
ACRM 3.5 Elizabeth Eckford, "Don't Let Them See You Cry," Elizabeth Eckford with Daisy Bates, "The First Day: Little Rock, 1957," in Growing Up Southern: Southern Exposure Looks at Childhood, Then and Now, edited by Chris Mayfield (New York Pantheon Books, 1981). | pdf
ACRM 3.6 David Kirp, "Retreat to Legalism: The Little Rock School Desegregation Case in Historic Perspective," PS: Political Science and Politics, pp. 443-447, September 1997. | pdf
Available Resources
Little Rock Crisis (1957) | html
The Brown Decision in Norfolk, Virginia | html
Case Report Option
Lassiter v. Northampton Election Board (1959) |
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| THUR MAR 29 | NO CLASS |
| Read for Tuesday. Work on research paper. |
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| TUES APR 3 | The Origins of the Montgomery Bus Boycott |
Reading
Adam Fairclough, “The Nonviolent Rebellion, 1955-1960," from Better Day Coming: Blacks and Equality.
ACRM 3.3 John White, "Nixon Was the One: Edgar Daniel Nixon, the MIA and the Montgomery Bus Boycott," in Brian Ward and Tony Badger, eds., The Making of Martin Luther King and the Civil Rights Movement, (45-63) New York University Press 1996. [Littlejohn Summary]
ACRM 3.4 Rosa Parks, "... I Tried to Think About What Might Happen," Rosa Parks with Jim Haskins, Rosa Parks: My Story, New York (Dial Books 1992). [Littlejohn Summary]
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| THUR APR 5 | Martin Luther King Jr., Montgomery, and SCLC |
Reading
ACRM 2.7 Clayborne Carson, "Martin Luther King, Jr.: Charismatic Leadership in a Mass Struggle," Journal of American History vol. 74 (September 1987), pp. 448-454. | pdf
Available Resources
Martin Luther King, Jr. | html
Case Report Option
Browder v. Gayle (1956)
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| TUES APR 10 | The Sit-Ins and SNCC |
Reading
Re-read the last section, "The Student Sit-ins and the Formation of SNCC" from Adam Fairclough's chapter “The Nonviolent Rebellion, 1955-1960" in Better Day Coming: Blacks and Equality.
ACRM Introduction to Chapter 4 Emergence of a Mass Movement: Student Activism 1960-1965. | pdf
ACRM 4.1 Joanne Grant, "Political Mama," Ella Baker, Freedom Bound, pp. 125-146, John Wiley, 1998. | pdf
Available Resources
Sit-Ins | html
Ella Baker | html
SNCC | html
Case Report Option
Boynton v. Virginia (1960)
Heart of Atlanta Motel v. United States (1964) |
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| THUR APR 12 | NO CLASS |
| Work on research paper. |
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| TUES APR 17 | The Freedom Rides |
Reading
Adam Fairclough, “The Civil Rights Movement, 1960-1963," from Better Day Coming: Blacks and Equality.
Available Resources
Freedom Riders | html
Case Report Option
Bailey v. Patterson (1962) |
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| THUR APR 19 | From Albany to Birmingham |
Reading
Adam Fairclough, “Birmingham, the Freedom Summer, and Selma," from Better Day Coming: Blacks and Equality.
Martin Luther King, "Letter From Birmingham City Jail," April 16, 1963 (King Estate). | html
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| TUES APR 24 | The March on Washington |
Reading
ACRM 4.5 Keith Miller and Emily Lewis, "Touchstones, Authorities and Marion Anderson: The Making of I Have A Dream," in Brian Ward and Tony Badger eds., The Making of Martin Luther King and the Civil Rights Movement (147-161) New York University Press, 1996. | pdf
ACRM 4.6 Bayard Rustin, "From Protest to Politics: The Future of the Civil Rights Movement," Commentary, February 1965, pp. (Estate of Bayard Rustin). | pdf
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| THUR APR 26 | Freedom Summer and Beyond |
Reading
Len Holt, The Summer that Didn't End: The Story of the Mississippi Civil Rights Project of 1964 (1965) (chap. 1-2) | pdf
ACRM 4.7 Lyndon B. Johnson, "The Voting Rights Act Should Be Passed," Congressional Record, 89th Cong., 1st sess., vol. 3, no. 47 (March 15, 1965). | pdf
Available Resources
The Civil Rights Act of 1964 | html
Case Report Option
Baker v. Carr (1962)
Gray v. Sanders (1963)
Reynolds v. Sims (1964)
South Carolina v. Katzenbach (1966)
Katzenbach v. Morgan (1966)
Harper v. Virginia Board of Elections (1966)
Loving v. Virginia (1967) |
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| TUES MAY 1 | Black Power |
Reading
Adam Fairclough, “The Rise and Fall of Black Power," from Better Day Coming: Blacks and Equality.
ACRM 5.3 Michael Eric Dyson, "Meeting Malcolm," Making Malcolm, The Myth and Meaning of Malcolm X, (3-17) Oxford University Press, 1995. | pdf
ACRM 5.1 Allen Matusow, "From Civil Rights to Black Power: The Case of SNCC, 1960-1966," in Barton J. Bernstein and Allen J. Matusow, eds., Twentieth Century America: Recent Interpretations, Harcourt Brace Janovich, 1969, pp. 531-536. | pdf
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| THUR MAY 3 | The Continuing Struggle |
Reading
Adam Fairclough, “The Continuing Struggle," from Better Day Coming: Blacks and Equality.
Case Report Option
Green v. County School Board of New Kent County (1968)
Swann v. Charlotte-Mecklenburg Board of Education (1971)
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| THUR MAY 10 | Final Exam |
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