This course examines the history of civil rights and the Civil Rights Movement in America from 1865 to the present, focusing on the earliest efforts to achieve civil rights for African Americans and the constant evolution of those efforts. This course focuses on the political, economic, and social issues that shaped understandings about civil rights, citizenship, race, class and gender, enriching the understanding of the fight for Civil Rights in American History beyond the Civil Rights Movement of the 1950s and 1960s. While this course will focus primarily on African American civil rights and civil rights movements in American history, various other civil rights movements may be included for comparative analysis. Accordingly, this course will historicize issues related to race, ethnicity, and gender in ways that will better prepare future officers to lead in the modern Army.
