If you selected Malcolm X’s message to the grassroots you might focus on the era of the civil rights period or the rise of Black Nationalism among African Americans in the 1960s. Examine the philosophy and politics of the Nation of Islam or Malcolm X.
-Henry Louis Gates Jr., Life Upon These Shores: Looking at African American History, 1513-2008 (Knopf, 2013). -Kai Wright, African American Experience: Black History and Culture Through Speeches, Letters, Editorials, Poems, Songs, and Stories (Black Dog & Leventhal; Reprint Edition, 2009) Students will select a paper topic based on one of the primary sources from the […]