Classes are held Mondays 6:30pm–8:30pm online and in-person at GROW, 1340 Elmwood Ave. in Columbia SC
Saturday March 2, 2pm: Orientation. Tours of Modjeska Simkins’s historic home, located next to GROW, will run between noon and 1:45pm
Class 1 – March 4: Stolen land, stolen people, stolen history
Class 2 – March 11: Colonization through statehood — SC shapes a nation
Class 3 – March 18: Nullification, secession, and war
Class 4 – March 25: Reconstruction
Class 5 – April 8: Redemption and Jim Crow
Class 6 – April 15: America’s pattern of progress and repression
Class 7 – April 22: Textiles, unions, and militant human rights
Class 8 – April 29: Separate and unequal
Class 9 – May 6: The cycle of progress and repression
Class 10 – May 13: Vietnam — SC’s key role in the anti-war movement
Class 11 – May 20: Political theory and analysis
No class May 27. Special recognition of the first Memorial Day
Class 12 – June 3: Rise of the New Left
Class 13 – June 10: Organizing 101 and effective citizenship
Class 14 – June 17: Let’s get busy! Skills and tools sessions set by students
Graduation – Saturday June 22