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Begin with how government works, follow history through time, and explore the richness of Black culture.
AAS 100 · 1776 – Today
Start here. Why the Constitution was written, who was in the room and who was left out, how slavery shaped it, every amendment explained with its impact on African Americans, and how government works today. Five 10-question tests.
AAS 101 · 1619 – 1775
From the first enslaved Africans landing at Point Comfort to the laws that turned people into property.
AAS 102 · 1775 – 1865
Freedom fighters, the Underground Railroad, and the real reason the Civil War was fought.
AAS 103 · 1865 – 1900
Black senators, Black towns, and the violent campaign that tore it all down.
AAS 104 · 1900 – 1945
The Great Migration, Greenwood's wealth, the 1921 Tulsa Massacre, and Marcus Garvey's movement.
AAS 105 · 1945 – 1968
Every leader, every turning point — including Fannie Lou Hamer, Malcolm X, Dr. King, and white allies.
AAS 106 · 1968 – 2000
The hard truths: COINTELPRO, crack, mass incarceration, welfare rules, and crime statistics in context.
AAS 107 · 2000 – Today
The first Black president and First Lady, Black billionaires, and today's movements.
AAS 201 · 1770 – Today
From Crispus Attucks to Buffalo Soldiers, Harlem Hellfighters, Tuskegee Airmen, and the Pentagon.
AAS 202 · 1800s – Today
The minds behind traffic signals, blood banks, refrigerated trucks, home security, and more.
AAS 204 · 1917 – 1977
Her life from Mississippi sharecropping to voting-rights leadership, the 1964 convention challenge, and Freedom Farm. Includes Fannie Lou Hamer’s America and a 15-question quiz.
AAS 205 · 1837 – Today
The struggle for education, the first HBCUs, Reconstruction, land-grant funding, Black women’s leadership, student activism, and cultural legacy. Full documentary and five 10-question tests.
AAS 301 · 1865 – 1915
Documentary seminar. How freedom was won, how it was taken back through labor contracts, terror, courts and national compromise, and how a movie rewrote the memory of it all. 15-question final exam.
AAS 302 · 1865 – 1877
Documentary seminar. Why emancipation threatened white identity, how a 'social club' in Pulaski became a terror network, and how the federal government fought it. 15-question final exam.
AAS 303 · 1856 – 1963
Documentary seminar. Two brilliant leaders, two strategies for Black freedom: build economic power first, or demand full equality now. Weigh the case for each. 15-question final exam.
AAS 304 · 1867 – 1931
Documentary seminar. From washerwoman to millionaire: how Sarah Breedlove built a national company of Black women sales agents, and how her daughter A'Lelia funded the Harlem Renaissance. 15-question final exam.
AAS 305 · 1915 – 1945
Documentary seminar. The second Klan rose to millions of members, and Black Americans answered with armed self-defense, investigative journalism, lawsuits, migration and the vote. 15-question final exam.
AAS 306 · 1954 – 1959
Documentary seminar. Nine teenagers, a governor's troops, a president's paratroopers and a year inside Central High. What it really costs to turn a court ruling into reality. 15-question final exam.
AAS 307 · 1963 – 2002
Documentary seminar. Spike Lee's portrait of Addie Mae Collins, Cynthia Wesley, Carole Robertson and Denise McNair, the city of 'Bombingham,' and the 39-year fight for justice. 15-question final exam.
AAS 308 · 1965 – 1987
Documentary seminar. The first Black sheriff elected in the Deep South since Reconstruction, how the Voting Rights Act made him possible, and how to separate legend from the historical record. 15-question final exam.
AAS 309 · 1791 – 1992
Documentary seminar. A fast tour of all 27 amendments, then a deep, case-based look at how the Bill of Rights, the Reconstruction Amendments and the voting amendments work for — and were withheld from — Black Americans. 15-question final exam.
AAS 401 · 1600s – today
How African rhythms, spirituals, blues, jazz, gospel, soul, funk and hip-hop became the sound of America and the world.
AAS 402 · 1770s – today
Phillis Wheatley to Toni Morrison, the Harlem Renaissance, Black art, film and the history of African American English.
AAS 403 · 1600s – today
Soul food, the Black church, hair and style, sports pioneers, and traditions like Juneteenth and Kwanzaa.
