Lecture 2 | African-American Freedom Struggle (Stanford)

Lecture 2 of Clay Carson's Introduction to African-American History Course (HIST 166) concentrating on the Modern Freedom Struggle (Fall 2007). This lecture focuses on W.E.B. Du Bois and the Great Depression. Recorded September 27, 2007 at Stanford University.

This course introduces the viewer to African-American history, with particular emphasis on the political thought and protest movements of the period after 1930, focusing on selected individuals who have shaped and been shaped by modern African-American struggles for freedom and justice. Clayborne Carson is a professor in the History Department at Stanford University.

Complete playlist for the course:
http://www.youtube.com/view_play_list?p=40E11D5C66CAC48C

Course syllabus:
http://www.stanford.edu/~ccarson/History/Syllabus%20Fall%202007b.pdf

More on Clayborne Carson:
http://www.stanford.edu/~ccarson/

Stanford University channel on YouTube:
http://www.youtube.com/stanford

Category:

Education

Tags:

• African-American
• culture
• black
• history
• Modern
• Freedom
• Struggle
• civil
• rights
• movement

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[eethry]

actually money circulating means money made, look up the return for foodstamps. Period.

[HairLikeCottonCandy]

33:30 the government paying people to produce less. Hmmm, doesn't that sound ridiculous? Its almost as if FDR made the depression worse than it had to be.

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[818poochie]

@Hermann759 No. for anyone interested in the civil rights era, black American history and the key people involved. 

[Hermann759]

This channel is for African-American only?

[cccacademia]

@cccacademia I would love to see more intellectual discouse and lectures on You Tube. I would love to see You Tube reflect C Span and Public Television.