Challenges Women Face Women often faced long hours, low pay, bad conditions Wages were often given over to the male head of the house With no suffrage, women could not change this lifestyle

Women’s Fight for Suffrage Carrie Chapman Catt Push for suffrage by doing the following Lobby Congress for the right to vote Use the referendum process to try and pass state suffrage laws n American women's suffrage leader who campaigned for the Nineteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution, which gave U.S. women the right to vote in 1920.[1] Catt served as president of the National American Woman Suffrage Association and was the founder of the League of Women Voters and the International Alliance of Women.

Women’s Fight for Suffrage 1920- 19th amendment was passed Right to vote “shall not be denied…on account of sex” Women would immediately be able to vote in the 1920 Presidential election

Racism Limits Progressives Due to racism, Progressives often did not take their reforms far enough or inclusive enough Plessy v Ferguson and Jim Crow Laws were never seriously challenged by Progressives Left African Americans on their own in many cases It upheld the constitutionality of racial segregation laws for public facilities as long as the segregated facilities were equal in quality, a doctrine that came to be known as "separate but equal

African Americans Demand Reform

African Americans Demand Reform Niagara Movement: Led by DuBois, demanded immediate equality of African Americans and denounced gradual progress Denounced Booker T. Washington saying his plan would make workers, but not “men”

African Americans Demand Reform A lynching riot in 1908 got the attention of both whites and blacks The National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) was formed by Dubois Goal: use the court system to challenge unfair laws that hurt minorities August 14-16, 1908, sparked by the arrest of two African Americans as suspects in violent crimes against Whites. When a mob seeking to take the men for lynching discovered the sheriff had transferred them out of the city, it rioted in Black neighborhoods. It killed Black citizens on the street and destroyed businesses and homes The group sought to protect minorities from: Forced, low paid labor Ignorance Disenfranchisement Insult