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Fall 2025 Graduate Catalog
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AFS 540 - The Black Power Movement
This course examines the Black Power Movement. Stokely Carmichael’s call for “Black Power!” broke through the commotion of everyday politics during 1966’s Meredith March Against Fear. Soon after, and for the next decade, Black Power galvanized African American politics, engendering radical movements for social, political, and cultural transformation that impacted blacks in the United States and beyond. An emerging historiography traces the roots of Black Power in the postwar black freedom movement, finding cultural and political touchstones for future Black Power activism among civil rights renegade, trade unionists, and black nationalists. We will examine works produced during the Black Power era and new scholarship to analyze the Black Power Movement’s legacy in the politics and culture of African Americans.
3 credits
Grading Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.)
Cross-Listed This course is offered as both HIS 540 and AFS 540.
Required Permission of advisor is required.
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