Civil Rights

How Do We Know What We Know? An Introduction to the Curriculum's Questions

Unit 1

Women, Power & Leadership

Unit 1

The Congo Free State: When a Conference Gave Away a Country as Personal Property

Unit 2

The Sons of Africa: Black Britons Argue Their Own Case

Unit 3

French Assimilation: A Promise Kept for a Tiny Few

Unit 3

The Political Convention & Public Voice (1820–1840)

Unit 4

The Debate That Shaped a Century: Douglass, Washington, Du Bois & the Question of Black Freedom

Unit 4

Black Reconstruction: The Congressmen, the Legislation, and the Collapse

Unit 4

The Architecture of Community — Churches & Aid Societies (1840–1860)

Unit 4

The General Strike & The End of Slavery (1861–1865)

Unit 4

Serving and Sacrificing: Black Military Service from Reconstruction to World War II

Unit 4.5

Black Women's Leadership & the Civil Rights Movement

Unit 4.5

The Black Church: Institution, Liberation & the HBCU Pipeline

Unit 4.5

Marcus Garvey, the UNIA & the Black Star Line

Unit 4.5

Ida B. Wells: The Science of Lynching & the Architecture of Anti-Black Terror

Unit 4.5

Black Feminist Political Thought: Wells, Hamer, and Baker as Theorists

Unit 4.5

HBCU to Independence: The African Leaders of Lincoln University

Unit 4.5

The Three Pillars: Black Church, HBCUs, and the Divine Nine

Unit 4.5

King's Ghana Trip & Malcolm's OAAU Charter

Unit 5

Pan-Africanism: The Full Ideological Arc — Blyden to the OAU

Unit 5

Third World Marxism & Black Radical Thought: Rodney, Fanon, and C.L.R. James

Unit 5

Muhammad Ali: Resistance, Religion, and Refusal

Unit 5.5

Jackie Robinson and the Integration Bargain

Unit 5.5

The Voting Rights Act, Shelby County, and the Unfinished Franchise

Unit 6

African Americans as Americans: 400 Years of Presence, Contribution, and Cultural Innovation

Unit 6

The Civil Rights Movement: From Brown to Selma (1954–1965)

Unit 6

Malcolm X & the Nation of Islam: Black Nationalism and Self-Defense

Unit 6

Vietnam: Black Service, Black Resistance

Unit 6

The New Jim Crow: The War on Drugs and the Rise of Mass Incarceration

Unit 6

Algeria: The War France Refused to Call a War

Unit 6

The White Normative Gaze and Its Shadows: Respectability, Authenticity, and the Politics of Black Identity

Unit 6

The Wretched of the Earth: Violence, Sartre's Preface, and the Pitfalls Ahead

Unit 6

From Plantation to Algorithm: The Digital Life of Colorism

Unit 6

Beyond the Salon: Présence Africaine and the 1956 Congress

Unit 6.5

Dance as Liberation: Alvin Ailey & Dance Theater of Harlem

Unit 6.5

The Literary Diaspora: Black Pulitzer Prize Winners & the Canon They Built

Unit 6.5

Black Cinema: From Oscar Micheaux to Ava DuVernay

Unit 6.5

South Africa: Apartheid as Formal Law, and the Decades-Long Fight to End It

Unit 7

The Caribbean Connection: Haiti, Jamaica, and the Making of the African Diaspora

Unit 7

Reform or Abolition: The Carceral State and the Movement for Black Lives

Unit 7

Black Political Representation: From Reconstruction to the Senate Floor

Unit 7

Lusotropicalism and Its Limits: Race in Portugal Today

Unit 7

Economic Self-Determination: From Mutual Aid to Black Wall Street

Unit 7

From Civil Rights to Black Lives Matter

Unit 7

Modern Caribbean Immigration: The Post-1965 Diaspora in Motion

Unit 7.5

Modern African Immigration: The Newest Diaspora

Unit 7.5

Forty Acres: The Promise, the Theft, and the Template

Unit 8

The March That Shouldn't Have Been Necessary: 1983

Unit 8

Banlieues, 2005, and the Sans-Papiers: An Unfinished Argument

Unit 8

The Ring as Refuge: Cuban Boxing After Maceo

Unit 8

The Racial Wealth Gap Today: What the Numbers Mean

Unit 8

Mutual Aid and Cooperative Economics: The Tradition That Survived Everything

Unit 8

Ideas That Changed the World: The Black Intellectual Tradition

Unit 10

Art as Memory, Resistance and Imagination

Unit 10

Many Paths, One Community: Religious Diversity in Black America

Unit 10

The Black Church: Faith, Community and Freedom

Unit 10

A Word Before It Was a Book

Unit 10

Justice for a Million Cases: The Gacaca Courts and Their Limits

Unit 10

Between Two Movements: Organizations Bridging Black and Latino America

Unit 11

The Sahel, 2020-2023: A Coup Wave That Rejected the Gambian Model Entirely

Unit 12

From a 'Dictators' Club' to an Institution With Actual Tools

Unit 12

Leaderless, Tribeless, Online: Kenya's Gen Z Uprising

Unit 12