Unit Code:	HIS2CWU
Alternative Unit Code:	HIS3CWU
Unit Short Title:	CIVIL WAR TO CIVIL RIGHTS IN THE USA
Credit Points:	20
Unit Description:	In this unit we explore race relations in the USA from the Civil War of the 1860s through to the origins of the post-World War II civil rights movement. An examination is made of how African-Americans achieved legal equality at the end of the Civil War only to find that slavery was soon replaced by a system of legal segregation that existed across the southern states until the 1960s. Black efforts to fight for racial justice are studied, paying particular attention to important civil rights leaders such as W.E.B. DuBois, Booker T. Washington, Ida B. Wells and Marcus Garvey.
Prerequisites:	30 credit points of first year History or majoring in North American Studies
Class Requirements:	one 2-hour lecture and one 1-hour tutorial per week. For a pass in this unit students must normally attend at least 80% of the tutorials
Work Experience Indicator:	Not undertaking work experience in industry
Available to 'Study Abroad' students:	Y

Assessment:

Assessment Type	%	Comments
one 2,500-word research essay	50
one 2,500-word research essay	50

Readings:

Reading Type	Title	Author	Publisher
Recommended	Better day coming: blacks and equality, 1890-2000	Fairclough, A.	Penguin 2001
Recommended	Black leadership in America: from Booker T. Washington to Jesse Jackson	White, J.	2nd edn., Longman 1990
Recommended	Sweet land of liberty?: the African-American struggle for civil rights in the twentieth century	Cook, R.	Longman 1998
Recommended	Reconstruction: America's unfinished revolution, 1863-1877	Foner, E.	Harper & Row 1988

Unit Streams:

Teaching Period	Unit Class	Location
1   02-MAR-09   05-JUN-09	Day	BUNDOORA

Unit Coordinators:

Title	First Name	Last Name	Location	Primary Coordinator
Dr	Tim	Minchin	BUNDOORA	Y