Crash Course Black American History

Over the course of 50 episodes, we're going to learn about Black American History. Clint Smith will to teach you about the experience of Black people in America, from the arrival of the first enslaved Black people who arrived at Jamestown all the way to the Black Lives Matter movement.

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May 07, 2021


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The Trans-Atlantic Slave Trade

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Slavery in the American Colonies

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Elizabeth Key

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Slave Codes

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The Germantown Petition Against Slavery

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The Stono Rebellion

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Phillis Wheatley

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The American Revolution

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The US Constitution, 3/5, and the Fugitive Slave Clause

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The Fugitive Slave Act of 1793

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Women's Experience Under Slavery

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The Louisiana Rebellion of 1811

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The Rise of Cotton

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Maria Stewart

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The Underground Railroad

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The Dred Scott Decision

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Frederick Douglass

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Black Americans in the Civil War

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Reconstruction

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Ida B. Wells

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Plessy v Ferguson and Segregation

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Booker T. Washington and W.E.B DuBois

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The Black Women's Club Movement

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The Great Migration

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The Red Summer of 1919

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Arts and Letters of the Harlem Renaissance

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Political Thought in the Harlem Renaissance

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The Great Depression

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The Tuskegee Experiment

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Zora Neale Hurston

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World War II

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Randolph, Rustin, and the Origins of the March on Washington

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School Segregation and Brown v Board

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Emmett Till

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The Montgomery Bus Boycott

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Martin Luther King, Jr

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Student Civil Rights Activism

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Malcolm X and the Rise of Black Power

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The Black Panther Party

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Women and the Black Power Movement

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Marsha P. Johnson and the Stonewall Rebellion

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The War on Drugs

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Shirley Chisholm

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Jesse Jackson

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Los Angeles Uprisings

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Anita Hill and Clarence Thomas

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Rap and Hip Hop

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Toni Morrison

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Hurricane Katrina

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Barack Obama

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Black Lives Matter

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