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Open to grades 10-12

This semester long elective course is open to students who want to deepen their understanding of African American History from precolonial Africa through the present. This course will introduce students to key concepts in African American History form the early beginnings in Africa through the transatlantic slave trade, the Civil War, emancipation, Reconstruction, the civil rights era, and the Obama Presidency into the Black Lives Matter Movement. The course will highlight major social, political and economic movements, individuals, and ideas.