Project Description: Civil Rights Law and Policy

This course meets weekly over a fourteen-week semester. The course examines the development and evolution of Constitutional and statutory laws that affect the rights of African Americans and other minorities. The classes are structured in the following manner: The first one-third of each meeting consists of a PowerPoint presentation that is an overview of the subject-matter for that class. After the completion of that portion of the class, the students are divided into three or four small groups to discuss questions that were assigned at the conclusion of the previous class meeting. Each group is given a different set of questions that are designed to stimulate a discussion of the readings that were assigned for that week. After the students reconvene, each group leads a discussion with the entire class focusing on the questions assigned to their group.

Many of the slides used during the PowerPoint presentation contain images that are visual expressions of the materials under discussion. Photographs of Civil Rights lawyers and courtroom scenes from famous cases are used during discussions of the NAACP's legal campaign against segregation. Images of Civil rights leaders and photographs of mass marches, "sit-ins" and other protest activities are used at other times during the semester.

The Civil Rights era inspired artists to incorporate themes reflecting the energy, atmosphere and historic events of those times into their artistic expressions. The works of several of those artists are represented in the Paul Jones Collection. These will be used in the PowerPoint presentations during class meetings. The images will provide a new dimension to the visual aspect of classroom presentations.

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Deadline for submission: Monday, April 17, 2006