1. Describe the evolution of the American colonies into a "slave society."
2. Describe the role of the Declaration of Independence and Constitution on American slavery.
3. Describe racial attitudes in the antebellum North and their consequences
4. Describe the various facets of abolitionism
5. Describe the stated and unstated roles of slavery in the Civil War
6. Describe the role of race in Reconstruction
7. Describe white southern racial retrenchment after Reconstruction in all of its facets
8. Describe the evolution from Niagara to the NAACP
9. Describe the arguments of W.E.B. DuBois and Booker T. Washington about the role of African American
10. Describe twentieth century racial violence in tis various forms
11. Compare and contrast the theory and actions of peaceful nonviolent integration protest and more militant Black Power protest
12. Describe the evolution of SNCC
13. Describe the evolution of Nation of Islam from the1930s through the 1960s
14. Describe the theory and actions of the Black Panther Party
15. Describe the evolution of race rights in the 1970s.