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Progressivism

Progressivism. The Struggle Against Discrimination. M.I. The Progressive Movement helped pave the way for civil rights. Progressivism Presents Contradictions. Most Prog. Were white Anglo-Saxon Protestants (WASPS) who were indifferent to or hostile to minorities

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Progressivism

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  1. Progressivism The Struggle Against Discrimination

  2. M.I. The Progressive Movement helped pave the way for civil rights

  3. Progressivism Presents Contradictions • Most Prog. Were white Anglo-Saxon Protestants (WASPS) who were indifferent to or hostile to minorities • Everyone should follow middle class values

  4. Social Reform or Social Control • Americanization – would make immigrants more loyal and moral • Assimilation – learn the language, dress, food and customs • Most Europeans drank- prejudice helped fuel the temperance mvmt.

  5. Racism Limits the Goals of Progressivism • Many prejudiced • Some people more fit than others to be leaders in society • Theory – dark-skinned people had less intelligence than whites • Used these theories to justify the passage of laws to keep African-Amer. from voting

  6. Plessy v. Ferguson • By 1910 segregation was the norm • 1914 – federal govt offices segregated

  7. Homer Plessy

  8. African Americans Demand Reform • Booker T Washington – told blacks to move slowly towards racial progress • Have patience. Win respect and eventually get full voting and citizenship rights • Founded Tuskeegee Institute – trades • Atlanta Compromise – Asked only that whites be fair – not give anything away

  9. W.E.B. DuBois – demand equal rights immediately • William Monroe Trotter - agreed

  10. African Americans form the Niagara Movement • Summer 1905 – leading African Amer. Met at Niagara Falls (Canadian side) • Niagara Movement – no to gradual progress • No teaching of only trade skills • Talented tenth should be taught history, literature and philosophy so that they could think for themselves • Never very strong – needed a powerful leader

  11. Riots Lead to Formation of NAACP • Summer 1908 – white mob attempted to lynch 2 African Amer in jail – Springfield, IL • The people had been moved • Mob attacked black residents – killed 2 – burned 40 homes • The riots showed that African Amer. needed help to secure their rights • 1909 – NAACP – National Association for the Advancement of Colored People

  12. NAACP • Goals – to help African-Amer be “physically free from peonage, mentally free from ignorance, politically free from disfranchisement and socially free from insult.” • Included blacks and whites • Ida B. Wells – published in her newspaper the horrors of lynching • Used the courts to challenge unfair laws

  13. African Americans form the Urban League • African-Amer. Migrating from rural to urban areas • Needed help finding jobs • Relief agencies across America formed the Urban League – focused on poor workers • Helped with jobs, education and getting kids books and clothes

  14. Urban League and NAACP still around today.

  15. Reducing Prejudice and Protecting Rights • Other groups were discriminated against too. • Catholic parishes - helped

  16. The Anti-Defamation League Aids Jews • 1843 – B’nai B’rith – provided religious education and helped Jewish families • Anti-Defamation League – 1913 – to defend Jews against physical and verbal attacks and false statements • Anti-Semitism

  17. Mexican Americans Organize • In AZ – Partido Liberal Mexicano (PLM) • Offered many of the same services as the Urban League • Mutualistas – groups that made loans and provided legal assistance – insurance • Many forced to sign unfair labor contracts – like sharecroppers – 1911 Supreme Ct struck down law

  18. Native Americans Take Action • Dawes Act – 1887 – divided reservations into plots for individuals to farm • Lands not given to individuals could be sold to public • By 1932 – 2/3 of land owned in 1887 now belonged to whites • Society of American Indians – 1911 – Carlos Montezuma

  19. Asian Americans Fight Unfair Laws • 1913 – CA law – only US citizens could own land • Japanese immigrants could not become citizens – had to sell land – many put it in their childrens name • Born here = citizen

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