Title: Progressivism and Race
1Progressivism and Race
2Race Relations in the Progressive Era
- A. Gradually Improved Thanks to the Hard Work of
Reformers - B. Rapidly Deteriorated Because of
Progressivisms Blind Spots
3Key Question of the Week How Did the
Progressives View Race?
PROGRESS?
SEGREGATION
4Background A New Generation of Black Leadership
- 1880s and 1890s At Least Limited Progress for
African Americans
5Populist Party in South in the 1890s
- Populists in the South Alliance of Blacks and
Poor Whites?
6Populist Party in South in the 1890s
- Populists in the South Alliance of Blacks and
Poor Whites? - One Million Black Farmers Join the Colored
Farmers Alliance
7Populist Party in South in the 1890s
- Populists in the South Alliance of Blacks and
Poor Whites? - One Million Black Farmers Join the Colored
Farmers Alliance - Hundreds of Thousands of African American Men Can
Still Vote.
8Response of Southern DemosThe Race Card
- Democrats Accused Populists of Being Soft on
Race. - Populists Eventually Responded with Their Own
Racism, Abandoning Blacks
Pitchfork Ben Tillman Senator, SC
9Lynching in the 1890s
- Almost 1,600 Blacks Lynched in 1890s on a
Variety of Trumped Up Charges
10One ResponseJim Crow Segregation
- Solution to Disorder Complete Legal Segregation
and Disenfranchisement - Plessy v. Ferguson (1896) Separate but Equal.
- Progressive Response?
11Black Political ResponseBooker T. Washington
- Ex-Slave Founder of the Tuskegee Institute
12Black Political ResponseBooker T. Washington
- Ex-Slave Founder of the Tuskegee Institute
- Atlanta Exposition Speech (1895)
13Black Political ResponseBooker T. Washington
- Ex-Slave Founder of the Tuskegee Institute
- Atlanta Exposition Speech (1895)
- Practical Economic Progress
14Black Political ResponseW. E. B. DuBois
- Harvard Graduate Historian and Intellectual
- Talented Tenth
- NAACP in 1909 (edited Crisis)
15Can reformers fight economic discrimination
without fighting political discrimination?
16Is the Concept of the Talented Tenth Undemocratic?
17American Foreign Policy
- Progressivism and the Rise of American Imperialism
18Americans Traditionally Aloof of Overseas
Imperialism
- Frontier to Settle (Americas Empire Was
ContiguousA Supposedly Empty Landscape). - Empires Viewed as Corrupt, Undemocratic
19Explaining the March to Empire BIG BUSINESS
- Need Oversees Markets
- Seven Percent of Economy Invested Oversees
20Explaining the March to Empire MILITARY NEEDS
- Naval Spending Increased Dramatically in
Progressive Period
21Explaining the March to Empire RELIGION AND RACE
22Point to StressEmpire not Inevitable
- Anti-Imperial League William Jennings Bryan
23Point to StressEmpire not Inevitable
- Anti-Imperial League William Jennings Bryan
- Anti-Imperial League Andrew Carnegie