HIS 4335 Civil Rights
This class will examine the history of civil rights in the US and the country's goal of forming a more perfect union, especially in light of the revelations following the George Floyd killing in 2020. We will begin be looking at the Bill of Rights in its original context and then trace the expansion of rights through the nineteenth century, especially with the addition of the XIII-XV Amendments to the US Constitution. The bulk of the class will examine the events of the "formal" Civil Rights Movement from the 1950s to the present.