SYLLABUS
Department of History and
Government
History 115 African American History Since 1865
Instructor: Dr. Roger Davidson, 301-860-3600
Office Location: MLK 248
Office Hours: Saturday 10:00 a.m
– 11:00a.m
E-MAIL: rdavidson@coppin.edu
Web Page:
http://faculty.coppin.edu/pages/RDavidson
Fax:
301-860-3619
COURSE
DESCRIPTION
Prerequisite: ENGL 101. An analysis of the role of Black American life from the
Civil War to the present. (Note: May be taken for honors credit.)
REQUIRED
TEXT
Carson,
Clayborne et. al., The
Struggle For Freedom. Vol. 2.
.
STUDENT
OUTCOMES
Student
will:
1.
be acquainted with the
historian’s craft
2.
be exposed to various
historigraphical writings
3.
develop an appreciation of
the complex societal forces in operation during the 20th Century
such as racial segregation, enactment from federal and state law affecting
black
4.
have an understanding of the
unique institutions, organizations and systems that were developed by the
transplanted African to
5.
study the impact of the
Reconstruction, the Gilded Age, the
World War I and its aftermath upon the
status of the freedmen who had been
displaced from the
SPECIFIC LEARNING OBJECTIVES
1.
to assist the student’s
understanding of the methodology and techniques of the historian’s craft by
utilizing the material culture of the African-American experience from the
Civil War to the present.
2.
to develop the student’s skills
in research & library skills through the use of African-American documents
& bibliographic reference tools.
3.
to strengthen the student’s
ability in the areas of critical thinking and abstract reasoning through the
examination of historical problems that the confronted-the “displaced” freedmen in modern
4.
to aid in the student’s
understanding of the larger plight of humanity through the uniqueness of
the
African-American experience in western culture.
CURRICULUM THEMES CORRESPONDING
OUTCOMES OR OBJECTIVES
Academic
Scholar Outcome, 1, 2, all objectives
Multicultural
and Global Perspectives
Outcome, 3, 4, 5, all objectives
Personal
and Interpersonal Perspectives
Outcome, 3, 4, 5, all objectives
Technological
Applications
1, 2, objectives 1 & 2
TEACHING
MODES
Teaching
modes include student participation in group discussions, lectures,
audio-visual materials, and special research assignments involving the use of
primary and secondary sources in the discipline that are located major in
repositories such as the Library of Congress, The National Archives and other
learning centers in the greater Baltimore-Washington area.
COURSE GRADE:
Test
1 30%
Test
2 30%
Final
(cumulative) 40%
Total 100%
TOPICAL OUTLINE:
September 1st Introduction
– The Civil War
n
Lecture
September 8th Reconstruction
-- Struggle For Freedom Chapter 11
September 15th Post Reconstruction
-- Struggle For Freedom Chapter 12
September 22nd The Progressive Era
-- Struggle For Freedom Chapter 13
September 29th The New Negro Era and World War I
-- Struggle For Freedom Chapter 14
October 6th African Americans and the New Deal
--Struggle For Freedom Chapter 15
October 13th *********** Test 1 *********
October 20th World War II and the Double V Campaign
-- Struggle For Freedom Chapter 16
October 27th Mass Movement Against Jim Crow
-- Struggle For Freedom Chapter 17
November 3rd Marching Toward Freedom
-- Struggle For Freedom Chapter 18
November 10th Resistance, Repression, and Retrenchment
-- Struggle For Freedom Chapter 19
November 17th ********* Test 2 ************
November 24th THANKSGIVING
BREAK
November 31st The Search For New Directions
-- Struggle For Freedom Chapter 20
December 1st Review Of The Semester – Political Roots Of Today’s Issues
December 8th Cumulative
Final Examination
NOTE: After completing English 101 and 102, student
must take and pass the
CLASS
ATTENDANCE
1.
CLASS ATTENDANCE IS MANDATORY
2.
UNEXCUSED ABSENCE CAN RESULT
IN TOTAL LOSS OF CREDIT FOR QUIZZES, EXAMINATIONS, AND ALL OTHER ASSIGNMENTS.
SELECTED
BIBLIOGRAPHICAL REFERENCES
SLAVE EXPERIENCE
L.
FILLER, THE CRUSADE AGAINST SLAVERY
Fishel
& Quarles (eds.), THE BLACK AMERICAN
J.H.
Franklin, THE FREE NEGRO IN
---------------, THE EMANCIPATION PROCLAMATION
--------------, FROM
SLAVERY TO FREEDOM
-------------, THE
MILITANT SOUTH, 1800-1861
E.F.
Frazier, THE NEGRO FAMILY IN THE UNITED STATES
E.
Genovese, THE POLITICAL ECONOMY OF
SLAVERY
C.M.
Green, THE
L.J.
Greene, THE NEGRO IN COLONIAL
O.
Handlin, RACE
& NATIONALITY IN AMERICAN LIFE
M.
Herskovits, THE MYTH OF THE NEGRO PAST
W.
Page
4
L.F.
Litwack, NORTH OF SLAVERY: THE FREE NEGRO IN THE UNITED STATES, 1790-1860
Mannix
& Couley, BLACK CARGOES: A HISTORY
OF THE ATLANTIC SLAVE TRADE
U.B.
Phillips, AMERICAN NEGRO SLAVERY
-------------, LIFE & LABOR IN
THE OLD SOUTH
Quarles, FREDERICK DOUGLASS
------------, THE NEGRO IN THE
AMERICAN REVOLUTION
-----------, THE
BLACK ABOLITIONIST
-----------, THE
NEGRO IN THE CIVIL WAR
Stampp, THE PECULIAR
INSTITUTION
Tennenbaum, SLAVE AND CITIZEN:
THE NEGRO IN THE
Wade, SLAVERY
IN THE CITIES
Walker, WALKER’S APPEAL
Williams, CAPITALISM &
SLAVERY
Woodson, THE EDUCATION OF THE
NEGRO PRIOR TO 1861
Woodman,
SLAVERY & THE SOUTHERN ECONOMY
Van
Woodward, THE BURDEN OF SOUTHERN HISTORY
Civil War and Reconstruction
Cornish, The Sable
Arm: Negro Troops in the Union Army.
McPherson, The
Struggle for Equality: Abolitionists and
the Negro During the Civil War and Reconstruction.
--------------,
The Negro’s Civil War.
Quarles,
The Negro in the Civil War.
-------------, Lincoln and
the Negro.
Leech,
Reveille in
Minion,
“Negro Soldiers in the Confederate
Army,” Crisis, June-July, 1978.
Wesley, Negro
Americans in the Civil War.
------------,
The Employment of Negro Soldiers in the
Confederate Army.” Journal of
Negro History (1919), 239-253.
Brewer, The
Confederate Negro
Page
5
Higginson, Army Life
in Black Regiment.
Williams, A History
of Negro Troops in the War of Rebellion
RECONSTRUCTION
Dubois,
Black Reconstruction
McKitrick, Andrew
Johnson and Reconstruction
Cox,
Politics, Principle and Prejudice,
1865-1866
Wharton,
The Negro in
Rose, Rehearsal
for Reconstruction
Williamson,
After Slavery: The Negro in
Bentley,
A History of the Freedmen’s Bureau
Bond,
Negro Education in
Blassingame,
Black
Franklin,
Reconstruction
Billington,
Journal of Charlotte Forten
Lynch,
Facts About
Reconstruction
Woodson,
Negro Orator and Their Orations
Drake,
“Freedmen’s Aid Societies,”
Journal of Southern History
Shuggs,
Origins of the Class Struggle in
Aptheker,
Documentary History of the Negro
People, vol. 2, pp. 540-546
Commager,
Documents in American History
nos. 260-269
THE GILDED AGE
Woodward,
Origins of a New
South
___________. The
Stranger Career
of Jim Crow
___________. Tom
Watsons: Agrarian Rebel
Kirwan Revolt of the Rednecks:
Singletary,
Negro Militias
Horn,
The Invisible Empre (see also
Congressional Testimony on the Ku Klux Klan Conspiracy)
Hicks,
The Populist Revolt
Key,
Southern Politics
Page
6
Cash,
Mind of the South
Durham
& Jones, The Adventures of the Negro Cowboys
Beasley,
The Negro Trail Blazers of
Berwanger,
The Frontier Against Slavery
Darris
& Brooks, Blacks in the
City: A history of the National Urban League
Gossett,
RaceL The History of an Idea in
Klineberg,
Negro Intelligence and Selective Migration
Snyder,
Race
Encyclopedia
of Social Science, “Race, Racialism, and Racism”
Hofstadter,
Social Darwinism in American Thought
Johnson
& Bond, “Physical and Mental Abilities of the American Negro, July, 1934,
317-329.
Rucharmes, Racial Thought in
Banton,
Race Relations
Benedict,
The Races of Mankind
Barzun,
Race
Boyd, Genetics
and the Races of Man
Cosmas, Racial Myths