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| Campus | Haverford |
| Semester | Spring 2023 |
| Registration ID | HISTH340B001 |
| Course Title | Topics in American History: Voices for Justice—Six African American Lives |
| Credit | 1.00 |
| Department | History |
| Instructor | Lapsansky,Emma |
| Times and Days | TTh 01:00pm-02:30pm
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| Additional Course Info | Class Number: 2524 This course will use biographies and memoirs to explore the world and human-dignity strategies of six African American activists from the eighteenth, nineteenth, and twentieth centuries. Through the eyes and experiences of these individuals, the course examines the world(s) they inhabited, their interweaving with Quakers and Quaker ideas and activism--and how their efforts to analyze, navigate, and master their world have helped shape American history. Built around the biographies, writing and speeches of Massachusetts sea captain Paul Cuffee (1759-1817); Philadelphia entrepreneur James Forten (1766-1842); teacher/newspaper publisher/lawyer Mary Ann Shadd Cary (1823-1893); educator/missionary Fanny Jackson Coppin (1837-1913); Philadelphia abolitionist Sarah Mapps Douglass (1806-1882); and March-on-Washington coordinator Bayard Rustin (1912-1987), the course surveys not only these individuals, but also the America they inhabited and influenced. Each of these six lives intersected, in various ways, with Quaker people, ideas and activities. Social Science, B: Analysis of the Social World (Hav: SO, B) |
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