Course Description

Instructor: Sal Depasquale, MCJ, MBA, Vietnam Veteran

White slaves (indentured servants) were given 50 acres and cash when freed from slavery -- but black slaves were given nothing and cast off into a system that was “Slavery by Another Name.� This class will examine the black experience from Reconstruction to the modern days, including: Jim Crow; the Great Black Migration north; the white migration to the suburbs and then to the Sunbelt; a country on the verge of a Race War; Civil Rights and Voting Rights Acts; and White Backlash. Suggested reading: The Promised Land: The Great Migration and How It Changed America (Lemann) and A Short Story of Reconstruction (Foner).