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• HIST 126 Black Freedom: Reconstruction to #BlackLivesMatter 6 credits

  This course analyzes Black Freedom activism, its goals, and protagonists from Reconstruction until today. Topics include the evolution of racial segregation and its legal and de facto expressions in the South and across the nation, the Great Migration and Harlem Renaissance, Black activism in the New Deal era, the effects of World War II and the Cold War, mass activism in the 1950s and 1960s, white supremacist resistance against Black rights, Black Power activism and Black Internationalism, the “War on Drugs,” racialized welfare state reforms, and police brutality, the election of Barack Obama, and the path to #BlackLivesMatter today.

  • Offered: Winter 2026
  • Liberal Arts Requirements: HI, Humanistic Inquiry IDS, Intercultural Domestic Studies
  • Tags: AFST Survey Course AMST Democracy Activism AMST Space and Place AMST Survey 2 CL: 100 level HIST Modern AMST Race Ethnicity Indigeneity EDUC 2 Social Cultural Context HIST Africa & Its Diaspora HIST United States

  • HIST  126.01 Winter 2026

  • Faculty:Rebecca Brueckmann 🏫 👤
  • Size:30
  • T, THLeighton 426 1:15pm-3:00pm