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Explore the history, culture, politics, and contributions of African Americans from origins to the present.
This AP African American Studies course on Study Mondo covers 10 topics organized across 4 categories. Each topic includes detailed written explanations, worked examples, practice problems with step-by-step solutions, flashcards for review, and interactive lessons to help you master the material.
Origins of the African Diaspora
African civilizations, the transatlantic slave trade, and the African diaspora
Freedom, Enslavement & Resistance
Slavery in America, resistance, abolition, and free Black communities
The Practice of Freedom
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African civilizations, the transatlantic slave trade, and the African diaspora
Reconstruction, Jim Crow, the Great Migration, and the Harlem Renaissance
Movements & Debates
Civil Rights Movement, Black Power, and contemporary African American life
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Slavery in America, resistance, abolition, and free Black communities
Reconstruction, Jim Crow, the Great Migration, and the Harlem Renaissance
13th-15th Amendments, Black political participation during Reconstruction, rise of Jim Crow, and Plessy v. Ferguson
Push/pull factors of the Great Migration, the Harlem Renaissance, jazz, literature, and Black intellectual thought
Black soldiers in WWI/WWII, Double V campaign, A. Philip Randolph, desegregation of the military
Civil Rights Movement, Black Power, and contemporary African American life
Brown v. Board, Montgomery Bus Boycott, sit-ins, Freedom Rides, March on Washington, and key legislation
Malcolm X, the Black Panther Party, Black Arts Movement, affirmative action, and political representation
Mass incarceration, Black Lives Matter, cultural influence, intersectionality, and ongoing struggles for equity