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Mar 07, 2026
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HIST 115 - (HP) Money, Power, and Respect: Black Women in the United StatesSemester Hours: 3
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This course will explore the experiences of Black Americans in the United States through the lens of Black women whose gendered, racial, and class perspectives offer distinctly different understandings of traditional watershed moments in the history of the United States. Through the lens of Maggie Lena Walker (money), Shirley Chisholm
(power), and Fannie Lou Hamer (respect), students will engage with various topics, including economic inequities, the politics of citizenship, disenfranchisement, and the reproductive justice movements from the Progressive Era to the twenty-first century. By the end of the semester, students will have sophisticated knowledge of the ways Black individuals, in many instances led by Black women, developed survival strategies, including self-help, entrepreneurship, and political activism that centered health and social safety nets as mechanisms to gain full, equitable access to American systems and structures.
Prerequisite(s)/Course Notes:
Credit given for this course or AFST 115 , not both. (Formerly The Afro-American in American History, 1619-1865.)
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Fall 2025
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