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Racism & Progressivism

Racism & Progressivism. Jamie Berg, Alessandra Policastro , Alyssa Bennett & Emma Corcodilos. Progressive Reformers. Muckraker Ray Stannard Baker spoke out against racial injustice Progressive reformers often led the movement for black disfranchisement and segregation.

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Racism & Progressivism

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  1. Racism & Progressivism Jamie Berg, Alessandra Policastro, Alyssa Bennett & Emma Corcodilos

  2. Progressive Reformers • Muckraker Ray Stannard Baker spoke out against racial injustice • Progressive reformers often led the movement for black disfranchisement and segregation

  3. The Birth of a Nation • Woodrow Wilson praised the racist movie The Birth of a Nation

  4. Atlanta Compromise • At age sixteen, Washington enrolled at a freedmen’s school in Hampton, established by a Civil War general named Samuel Chapman • Once blacks proved their economic value to society, he predicted that racism would fade away, meanwhile they must patiently accept their lot

  5. William Monroe Trotter • William Monroe Trotter, the editor of a black newspaper, in 1902 called Washington’s acceptance of black disfranchisement “a fatal blow… to the Negro’s political rights and liberty.”

  6. Controversy Among African-Americans • Du Bois taught from 1896-1910 at Atlanta University • Rejecting Washington’s call for patience and the exclusive cultivation of manual skills

  7. The National Association for the Advancement of Colored People • Settlement-house worker Mary White Ovington helped found the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People

  8. Establishing the NAACP • Nespaper publisher Oswald Garrison Villard, grandson of abolitionist William Lloyd Garrison • In 1909 Villard and his allies with Du Bois and other blacks from the Niagara Movement formed the National Association for the advancement of colored people (NAACP)

  9. NAACP called for the political equality for blacks and an end from the racial discrimination • 1914 the NAACP had 6,000 members, attracting the urban black middle class

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