Date	Day	Topics for Discussion and Assignments Due
September 2	Tuesday	First day of class. Welcome and introductions. Douglass, "What to the Slave is the Fourth of July?", 1852. [Note: If you have trouble with the direct link, try American Rhetoric, then follow the link to their Online Speech Bank and then to the Douglass Speech, which is listed alphabetically under his first name, Frederick.]
September 4	Thursday	Course Information, Schedule of Assignments. Declaration of Independence. United States Constitution. Douglass, "What to the Slave is the Fourth of July?", 1852. Photo/Bio Grimké, "Appeal to the Christian Women of the South (PDF, 1.7 MB)," 1837. Photo/Bio
September 9	Tuesday	Stanton, Seneca Falls Address (PDF, 804 KB), 1848. Photo/Bio
September 11	Thursday	Discussion of theory and texts continues from Tuesday.
September 16	Tuesday	McKay, Remonstrating Against the Right of Suffrage, 1870. Anthony, Address on the Charge of Illegal Voting, 1872. Photo/Bio Cleveland, "Would Woman Suffrage Be Unwise?", 1905. Photo/Bio
September 18	Thursday	Discussion continues from Tuesday.
September 23	Tuesday	Terrell, "Progress of Colored Women," 1898. Photo/Bio Shaw, "Fundamental Principle of a Republic," 1915. Photo/Bio
September 25	Thursday	Discussion continues from Tuesday. Have you stopped by to chat during office hours yet?
September 30	Tuesday	Visit Africana.com. Do a search for, and read about, the Civil Rights Movement, Black Power, the Southern Christian Leadership Conference, the Black Panthers, and the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee. Kennedy, "To the American People on Civil Rights," 1963. Photo/Bio Wallace, " Segregation Forever," 1963. Photo/Bio
October 2	Thursday	Discussion continues from Tuesday.
October 7	Tuesday	King, "I Have a Dream," 1963. Photo/Bio King, "Letter from Birmingham City Jail," 1963. Malcolm X, "The Ballot or the Bullet," 1964. Photo/Bio
October 9	Thursday	Discussion continues from Tuesday.
October 14	Tuesday	No Class: Fall Break.
October 16	Thursday	SNCC, Black Power, 1966. Carmichael, Black Power, 1966. Photo/Bio Carmichael, Black Power, 1967. King, Black Power, 1967.
October 21	Tuesday	Discussion continues from Thursday.
October 23	Thursday	Discussion continues from Tuesday. Mid-semester evaluation of the course.
October 28	Tuesday	Cleaver, "A Word to Students," 1968. Photo/Bio Davis, "Get it Together," 1971. Photo/Bio Black Panther Party Platform, 1966. Photo/Bio
October 30	Thursday	Discussion continues from Tuesday.
November 4	Tuesday	First exam.
November 6	Thursday	Read the National Organization for Women's "Chronology of the Equal Rights Amendment 1923-1996". Read the Eagle Forum's "A Short History of ERA". NOW, Statement of Purpose, 1966. National Council of Jewish Women, Statement in Opposition, 1970. National Council of Catholic Women, Statement in Opposition, 1970. Lane, "Long Island Press Picket," 1971 (photograph). NOW Circular, 1982. ERA-America, Eagle Forum, and NOW Letters of Appeal, 1982.
November 11	Tuesday	Mainardi, "Politics of Housework," 1970. Syfers, "Why I Want a Wife," 1971. Friedan, "An Open Letter to True Men," 1974. Photo/Bio Falwell, "The Feminist Movement," 1980. Photo/Bio
November 13	Thursday	Discussion continues from Tuesday.
November 18	Tuesday	Rich, Commencement Address at Smith College, 1979. Photo/Bio Chisholm, "The 51% Minority," 1970. Photo/Bio Beale, "Double Jeopardy," 1970.
November 20	Thursday	Discussion continues from Tuesday.
November 25	Tuesday	Newton, "A Letter from Huey . . .," 1970. Photo/Bio Shelley, "Gay is Good," 1970. Milk, "The Hope Speech," 1978. Photo/Bio Measure Nine, Oregon, 1992.
November 27	Thursday	No class: Thanksgiving recess.
December 2	Tuesday	Lorde, "There is No Hierarchy of Oppressions," 1983. Photo/Bio Liebman, Letter to William F. Buckley, Jr., 1990. Buckley, Response, 1990. Additional gay rights texts.
December 4	Thursday	Discussion continues from Tuesday. Steinem, "Words and Change," 1979/1982/1995. Photo/Bio Wrap-up and class evaluation. Optional critical essay due at the start of class.
December 9	Tuesday	Second Exam.