Institution: Yale University
Duration: 13 weeks
Time commitment: 2-3 hours per week
In this course, students look at the Black experience in America, from the end of the civil war through the modern civil rights movement. The course focuses on works by thought leaders like Booker T. Washington, Ida B. Wells-Barnett, Marcus Garvey, Martin Luther King Jr., and Malcolm X.
Jonathan Holloway, now president of Rutgers University, was a professor of history, African American studies, and American Studies at Yale University and the Dean of Yale College. He is the author of multiple books including "Confronting the Veil" and "Jim Crow Wisdom."
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