Law & Literature of the 1st Civil Rights Movement . ENGL 103LL
When you think of the Civil Rights Movement, who comes to mind? Martin Luther King, Jr.? Rosa Parks? Fannie Lou Hamer? Why not James Forten, DavidWalker, Frederick Douglass, Harriet Jacobs, Harriet and Dred Scott, and Sallie J. Robinson? And what exactly are civil rights, anyway? We usually associate “the” Civil Rights Movement with the 1950s and ‘60s. But histor- ians now argue that the first Civil Rights Movement coincided with the nation’s founding. Indeed, early Black activists gave legal and cultural meaning to civil rights – which were not constitutionalized until the end of the Civil War. Analyzes the court cases and literature through which Black activists not only fought for, but defined, civil rights in the U.S.
Prerequisites: Writing 2 or 50 or 109 or English 10 or upper-division standing.
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DO NOT TAKE THIS CLASS. The professor was extremely condescending and does not care about her students. Lectures were boring and Delombard was unaccessible. TA's really affected grade. Entire grade depends on final essay and even after office hours with my TA, I was given an 86. Entire class was a waste of my time. Lectures don't help. Good luck.
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