Taught by historian Clayborne Carson, the editor of the papers of Martin Luther King, Jr., this Stanford University course–entitled African-American History: Modern Freedom Struggle–provides an introduction to African-American history, “with a particular emphasis on the political thought and protest movements of the period after 1930.” It focuses “on selected individuals who have shaped and been shaped by modern African-American struggles for freedom and justice.”
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