AS 4000 - AS4000 Civil Rights and Congress I

Credits: 4

This two-part history course is based on the constitutional foundations of the civil rights laws passed by Congress during the modern rights movement. Part I highlights the first phase of the 20th century legislative struggle, beginning with the Niagara Movement through the struggles for anti-lynching, anti-poll tax, the Powell Amendment non-discrimination principle in federally funded programs, a permanent Fair Employment Practice, and other civil rights laws that led to passage in 1957 of the first civil rights act since Reconstruction. The course is structured with selections from published sources and primary documents from the collection of the NAACP Washington Bureau and its administrative files.

Prerequisites
EMS and AS2122, or instructor permission

When Offered:
Fall OnlyNote:
This course has already been submitted in the system; it is just not in the catalog.