by Khaki Westerfield, M.Ed.
Hickman High School
Columbia, Missouri

This course is a survey of the black experience in the United States, beginning in the antebellum period and ending with contemporary drama. Readings are taken from various genres - autobiography, poetry, the novel, the short story, and drama; and various time periods—antebellum, Reconstruction, the Harlem Renaissance, the Depression, the 1950s, and contemporary.

Gifted: This course is academically challenging. Any student who has an interest in the subject and has met the prerequisites (if any), may enroll.

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