1. The Struggle against discrimination

2. Progressivism Contradicts Itself
Settlement houses and other civic groups aid in Americanization of immigrants
Many reformers prejudiced against immigrants

3. Many progressives also prejudiced against non-whites
Woodrow Wilson, a Progressive, approved many policies that enforced segregation

4. 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

5. 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

6. 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

7. 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

8. 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

9. Booker T. Washington Founded the Tuskegee Institute
African Americans should build up economic resources

10. Mexican Americans Las Gorras Blancas
Tried to reclaim lands lost to white ranchers

11. Chinese Immigrants Yick Wo v. Hopkins (1886)
Court sided with Chinese immigrant who challenged a law banning him from opening a laundry

12. Women Fought for right to vote Frances Willard – wanted to ban alcohol
Elizabeth Cady Stanton – pushed for right to vote and was arrested