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Paul Robeson: Star to Outcast

By Clayborne Carson - Stanford
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Lecture Description

This lecture is entitled "Paul Robeson: Star to Outcast".

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