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May 15, 2024
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RLST 084 CM - Religion, Race, and the Civil Rights Movement
This course examines the influence of religion on white supremacy and the civil rights movement in the United States from the 1950s through the 1970s. In particular it explores how religious ideologies, symbols, texts, and narratives were incorporated and employed as strategies and mechanisms for social change in the African American, Mexican American/Chicano, and American Indian (AIM) civil rights struggles. It will focus on how key leaders such as Martin Luther King, Jr., Malcolm X, César Chávez, Ralph Abernathy, Reies López Tijerina, Dolores Huerta, Dennis Banks, and others drew on their religious ideologies, symbols, texts, and counter-narratives in their struggles against white supremacy, segregation, political disenfranchisement, and for civil rights, and social justics. HRT II, PRT.
Course Credit: 1.0
Please refer to the course schedule on the Scripps Portal for current course offerings and details.
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