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Yale University offers free course on African American history ‘from emancipation to the present’

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As protests against police brutality and systemic racism have swept across the country following the death of George Floyd, many have been encouraged to educate themselves on the history of the black experience in the U.S. as a way to help contextualize recent events.

Yale University offers a free course called “African American History: From Emancipation to the Present,” which covers many important events in black history from 1863 to the present day.

The free course contains recorded lectures covering the end of the Civil War and the beginning of Reconstruction, urbanization experiences of African Americans, as well as the development of the modern civil rights movement and its aftermath.

The course also touches on the thought and leadership of prominent figures, such as Booker T. Washington, Ida B. Wells-Barnett, W.E.B. Du Bois, Marcus Garvey, Martin Luther King Jr., and Malcolm X.

The course is taught by Jonathan Holloway, a former Yale professor of History and African American Studies, and was recorded in 2010.

Holloway, who earned his Ph.D. from the Ivy League school in 1995, is the author of “Jim Crow Wisdom: Memory and Identity in Black America Since 1940” and “Confronting the Veil: Abram Harris Jr., E. Franklin Frazier, and Ralph Bunche, 1919-1941.” He is currently the Provost of Northwestern University and was named the next president of Rutgers University.

To fully get into the full course, the time commitment is about 2 hours per week for approximately 13 weeks.

The course is apart of Open Yale Courses, which provides free access to some introductory lessons taught by distinguished Yale University teachers and scholars.

All lectures were recorded at Yale and are available in video, audio, and text transcript formats.

Yale’s free courses are funded by the William and Flora Hewlett Foundation, a charity established by William Hewlett of the Hewlett-Packard Company that aims to make high-quality educational opportunities more available, among other initiatives.

Another course the school offers is called “The Civil War and Reconstruction Era, 1845-1877,” which explores the causes and consequences of the American Civil War — including the impact of slavery, race, and emancipation as personal and national problems.

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