History 24, Section 5
Civil Rights Movement: History and Consequences (LG)
Professor Waldo E. Martin, Jr.
Tuesday 2:00-4:00, 2519 Tolman Hall, CCN: 39781

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This course will examine the origins, development, and consequences of the Civil Rights Movement in the United States. Our discussions will build upon a selection of short readings, documentary films, musical texts, and visual artifacts. Our major intellectual preoccupation will be analyzing historical and cultural representations of this watershed moment.

Waldo E. Martin, Jr. teaches courses in African American History, American Cultural History, and the United States in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. He is author of The Mind of Frederick Douglass and Brown v. Board of Education: A Brief History with Documents. He co-edited, with Dr. Patricia Sullivan, Civil Rights in the United States: An Encyclopedia.

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