Crash Course Black American History - Season 1

Season 1
Episodes

The Trans-Atlantic Slave Trade

Slavery in the American Colonies

Elizabeth Key

Slave codes

The Germantown Petition Against Slavery

The Stono Rebellion

Phillis Wheatley

The American Revolution

The US Constitution, 3/5, and the Fugitive Slave Clause

The Fugitive Slave Act of 1793

Women's Experience Under Slavery

The Louisiana Rebellion of 1811

The Rise of Cotton

Maria Stewart

The Underground Railroad

The Dred Scott Decision

Frederick Douglass

Black Americans in the Civil War

Reconstruction

Ida B. Wells

Plessy v Ferguson and Segregation

Booker T. Washington and W.E.B DuBois

The Black Women's Club Movement

The Great Migration

The Red Summer of 1919

Arts and Letters of the Harlem Renaissance

Political Thought in the Harlem Renaissance

The Great Depression

The Tuskegee Experiment

Zora Neale Hurston

World War II

Randolph, Rustin, and the Origins of the March on Washington

School Segregation and Brown v Board

Emmett Till

The Montgomery Bus Boycott

Martin Luther King, Jr

Student Civil Rights Activism

Malcolm X and the Rise of Black Power

The Black Panther Party

Women and the Black Power Movement

Marsha P. Johnson and the Stonewall Rebellion

The War on Drugs

Shirley Chisholm

Jesse Jackson

Los Angeles Uprisings

Anita Hill and Clarence Thomas

Rap and Hip Hop

Toni Morrison

Hurricane Katrina

Barack Obama

Black Lives Matter
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