Barack Obama's American Dream

Lecture Description

This lecture is entitled "Barack Obama's American Dream". It was recorded on December 6, 2007.

Course Description

This course introduces the viewer to African-American history, with particular emphasis on the political thought and protest movements of the period after 1930, focusing on selected individuals who have shaped and been shaped by modern African-American struggles for freedom and justice.

Course Index

1. Course Introduction and W.E.B. Du Bois
2. Du Bois and the Great Depression
3. Shirley Graham: Transformation of an Artist/Intellectual
4. Paul Robeson: Star to Outcast
5. Bayard Rustin: Radical Outsider
6. Martin Luther King, Jr.'s Social Gospel
7. The Women Who Made the Montgomery Movement
8. Ella Baker Inspires the Student Movement
9. Bob Moses: Mississippi Organizer
10. Vincent Harding on Martin Luther King Jr.
11. Clarence Jones on Martin Luther King Jr.
12. Malcolm X and his Ambiguous Legacy
13. Stokely Carmichael Defines Black Power
14. The Black Panther Party
15. Outlaw Feminist Angela Davis
16. Tupac Shakur's 'Thug Life'
17. Barack Obama's American Dream