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Title: Progressivism and Race


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Progressivism and Race
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Race Relations in the Progressive Era
  • A. Gradually Improved Thanks to the Hard Work of
    Reformers
  • B. Rapidly Deteriorated Because of
    Progressivisms Blind Spots

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Key Question of the Week How Did the
Progressives View Race?
PROGRESS?
SEGREGATION
4
Background A New Generation of Black Leadership
  • 1880s and 1890s At Least Limited Progress for
    African Americans

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Populist Party in South in the 1890s
  • Populists in the South Alliance of Blacks and
    Poor Whites?

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Populist 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

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Populist 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.

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Response 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
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Lynching in the 1890s
  • Almost 1,600 Blacks Lynched in 1890s on a
    Variety of Trumped Up Charges

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One ResponseJim Crow Segregation
  • Solution to Disorder Complete Legal Segregation
    and Disenfranchisement
  • Plessy v. Ferguson (1896) Separate but Equal.
  • Progressive Response?

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Black Political ResponseBooker T. Washington
  • Ex-Slave Founder of the Tuskegee Institute

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Black Political ResponseBooker T. Washington
  • Ex-Slave Founder of the Tuskegee Institute
  • Atlanta Exposition Speech (1895)

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Black Political ResponseBooker T. Washington
  • Ex-Slave Founder of the Tuskegee Institute
  • Atlanta Exposition Speech (1895)
  • Practical Economic Progress

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Black Political ResponseW. E. B. DuBois
  • Harvard Graduate Historian and Intellectual
  • Talented Tenth
  • NAACP in 1909 (edited Crisis)

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Can reformers fight economic discrimination
without fighting political discrimination?
  • A. Yes
  • B. No

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Is the Concept of the Talented Tenth Undemocratic?
  • A. Yes
  • B. No

17
American Foreign Policy
  • Progressivism and the Rise of American Imperialism

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Americans Traditionally Aloof of Overseas
Imperialism
  • Frontier to Settle (Americas Empire Was
    ContiguousA Supposedly Empty Landscape).
  • Empires Viewed as Corrupt, Undemocratic

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Explaining the March to Empire BIG BUSINESS
  • Need Oversees Markets
  • Seven Percent of Economy Invested Oversees

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Explaining the March to Empire MILITARY NEEDS
  • Naval Spending Increased Dramatically in
    Progressive Period

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Explaining the March to Empire RELIGION AND RACE
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Point to StressEmpire not Inevitable
  • Anti-Imperial League William Jennings Bryan

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Point to StressEmpire not Inevitable
  • Anti-Imperial League William Jennings Bryan
  • Anti-Imperial League Andrew Carnegie
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