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This course examines the political history of the civil rights movement, with a specific focus on the North. This class will be thematically structured and focus on lesser-known events of Black activism in U.S. urban history with a periodization in the twentieth and twenty-first century. Students will analyze the how the civil rights movement in the north is often framed as the “forgotten” struggle for Black liberation. They will also explore concepts of historiography, historical memory, and the genesis of the Black protest tradition.