Course curriculum

  • 1

    Week 1

    • Lecture Video - Africa, Early History and the Atlantic Slave Trade

    • Lecture Slides - Africa, Early History and the Atlantic Slave Trade

    • Group Discussion Questions

    • Course Syllabus
  • 2

    Week 2

    • Video Lecture - Sugar, Joint Investments and Forced Migrations: Why Africans in the Atlantic Slave?

    • Lecture Slides - Sugar, Joint Investments and Forced Migrations: Why Africans in the Atlantic Slave?

    • Group Discussion Questions
  • 3

    Week 3

    • Lecture Video - Inheritable, Perpetual, Race-Based Bondage: Slavery in the United States

    • Lecture Slides - Inheritable, Perpetual, Race-Based Bondage: Slavery in the United States

    • Group Discussion Questions
  • 4

    Week 4

    • Lecture Video - How Freedom Came; What Freedom Meant

    • Lecture Slides - How Freedom Came; What Freedom Meant (2 Files)

    • Lecture Reading - Jourdon Anderson Letter

    • Group Discussion Questions
  • 5

    Week 5

    • Lecture Video - From Reconstruction to Jim Crow

    • Lecture Slides - From Reconstruction to Jim Crow

    • Group Discussion Questions
  • 6

    Week 6

    • Lecture Video - The Long Civil Rights Movement, 1881-1968

    • Lecture Slides - The Long Civil Rights Movement, 1881-1968

    • Group Discussion Questions

    • Week 6 Podcast Recommendations

    • Nehemiah and Justified Anger Programs and Initiatives Video

    • The First Five Years of Justified Anger
  • 7

    Week 7

    • Lecture Video - The Modern Civil Rights Movement in Wisconsin

    • Lecture Slides - The Modern Civil Rights Movement in Wisconsin

    • Group Discussion Questions
  • 8

    Week 8

    • Lecture Video - Black Woman Heal: The Impact of Historical Trauma on Black Women and Girls

    • Group Discussion Questions

    • Lecture Photo Reference
  • 9

    Week 9

    • Lecture Video - The Cost of Apathy

    • Lecture Slides - The Cost of Apathy

    • Group Discussion Questions
  • 10

    Supplemental Course Materials

    • Course Syllabus

    • Online Course Page User Guide

    • Monday Class Time (Zoom) User Guide

    • Course Sponsors and Partners

    • Week 4 Lecture Reading - Jourdon Anderson Letter

    • Nehemiah and Justified Anger Programs and Initiatives Video

    • The First Five Years of Justified Anger

    • Week 6 Dr. Gee Podcast Recommendations