The Freshman Seminar Program has been designed to provide new students with the opportunity to explore an intellectual topic with a faculty member in a small seminar setting. Freshman seminars are offered in all campus departments and topics vary from department to department and semester to semester. Enrollment limited to fifteen freshmen.

This seminar will examine the history of women in the Modern African American Freedom Struggle. Particular attention will be given to the Civil Rights (1940-1966) and Black Power (1966-1980)eras. Our core readings and discussions will focus on the historical development, patterns, meanings, and consequences of the centrality of a wide range of African American women in that profoundly influential freedom struggle. Instructor bio: Waldo E. Martin Jr. is the Alexander F. and May T. Morrison Professor of American History and Citizenship at the University of California, Berkeley. The principal focus of his scholarship and teaching is African American cultural and intellectual history, in particular the Modern African American Freedom Struggle. With Joshua Bloom, he is co-author of Black Against Empire: The History and Politics of the Black Panther Party (2013). With Deborah Gray White and Mia Bay, he is the co-author of Freedom on My Mind: A History of African Americans with Documents (2013). With Patricia A. Sullivan, he is the co-editor of Civil Rights in the United States: An Encyclopedia (2000). He is the author of No Coward Soldiers: Black Cultural Politics in Postwar America (2005), Brown v. Board of Education: A Brief History with Documents (1998), and The Mind of Frederick Douglass (1985). Martin has published numerous articles and lectured widely on a variety of topics in modern African American history and culture. His current book project is A Change is Gonna Come, a cultural analysis of the modern African American Freedom Struggle.

This seminar will be taught synchronously, via remote instruction. It will meet regularly during the scheduled class times, and students will need to attend those meetings to succeed in the class.

Requisites

• Freshman Students

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