The Struggle against discrimination
Progressivism Contradicts Itself Settlement houses and other civic groups aid in Americanization of immigrants Many reformers prejudiced against immigrants
Many progressives also prejudiced against non-whites Woodrow Wilson, a Progressive, approved many policies that enforced segregation
Demand for Reform Booker T. Washington wanted blacks to move slowly toward racial progress W.E.B. DuBois and William Trotter formed Niagara Movement which denounced gradual progress
NAACP (National Association for the Advancement of Colored People) formed to help African Americans be free from low wages, ignorance and disenfranchisement (not having the right to vote) Leaders were Jane Addams, Ray Stannard Baker and W.E.B. DuBois
Reducing Prejudice and Protecting Rights Anti-Defamation League founded in 1913 to defend Jews against attack Mexican Americans founded mutualistas to make loans and support one another
Japanese Americans fought laws preventing citizenship Society of American Indians – 1911 – protested federal American Indian policy Japanese Americans fought laws preventing citizenship Supreme Court ruled against those laws in 1922
African Americans Black newspapers Ida B. Wells W.E.B. DuBois wrote articles against lynching Exercised free speech W.E.B. DuBois Believed African Americans should demand political equality immediately
Booker T. Washington Founded the Tuskegee Institute African Americans should build up economic resources
Mexican Americans Las Gorras Blancas Tried to reclaim lands lost to white ranchers
Chinese Immigrants Yick Wo v. Hopkins (1886) Court sided with Chinese immigrant who challenged a law banning him from opening a laundry
Women Fought for right to vote Frances Willard – wanted to ban alcohol Elizabeth Cady Stanton – pushed for right to vote and was arrested