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Progressive Era

Progressive Era . Civil Rights. African Americans. Segregation was becoming more prevalent throughout the country after the Plessy v. Ferguson case in 1896. The issue of discrimination was not dealt with in any major degree with the Progressive Movement.

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Progressive Era

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  1. Progressive Era Civil Rights

  2. African Americans • Segregation was becoming more prevalent throughout the country after the Plessy v. Ferguson case in 1896. • The issue of discrimination was not dealt with in any major degree with the Progressive Movement. • African Americans struggled economically. • The denial of civil rights was also a major problem.

  3. Lynchings • Statistics • 1880s: 1203 • 1890s: 1540 • 1900s: 872 • Ida B. Wells was an anti-lynching advocate and author.

  4. African American Leaders • Booker T. Washington was the head of the Tuskegee Institute in Alabama. • In 1895 with his Atlanta Exposition speech (Atlanta Compromise) he called the need for African-American self-improvement in area of job skills. • Focus on developing job skills for better wages.

  5. African American Leaders • WEB Du Bois an educator and writer. Harvard educated. • In 1903 he wrote The Soul of Black Folks. • He was critical of Booker T. Washington’s ideas. • Called for the government to do more for African-American civil rights.

  6. Civil Rights Organizations • 1905: The Niagara Movement • 1908: National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) • 1911: National Urban League • “Not alms but opportunity.”

  7. Urban Migration • In 1900, 90 percent of the African Americans in the US lived in the South. • Starting in 1910, over a million African Americans left the South. • Pushes: • Race relations • Boll weevil • Pulls: • Job opportunities

  8. Women’s Suffrage • By 1900 there was a transition in the leadership of the Women’s Suffrage Movement. The older leaders, Susan B. Anthony and Elizabeth Cady Stanton give way to Carrie Chapman Catt and Alice Paul. • Carrie Chapman Catt becomes president of National American Woman Suffrage Association (NAWSA). • Wyoming, 1869 • Initial strategy was to look for success at the state level. • Seeks amendment to U.S. Constitution (19th Amendment is passed in 1920)

  9. Women’s Suffrage • Militant suffragist Alice Paul defects from NAWSA and forms the National Woman’s Party. • Sought a constitutional amendment. • Aggressive protests. • 19th Amendment • Guaranteed women’s right to vote in all elections (local, state, and national)

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