Community College of Baltimore County HIST 116 African-American History Overview Fall 2024, Start Date 10/16/24

Examines the origin of African American people in continental Africa and traces the Black experience in America to the present. An emphasis is placed upon African roots, transition to enslavement, the realities of enslavement, opposition to enslavement, the Civil War, Reconstruction and its aftermath, the period of the Nadir, Black Nationalism, African American participation in the World Wars, institutional development, and the modern Civil Rights Movement.