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1 Progressivism and Race

2 Race Relations in the Progressive Era…
A. Gradually Improved Thanks to the Hard Work of Reformers B. Rapidly Deteriorated Because of Progressivism’s Blind Spots

3 Key Question of the Week: How Did the Progressives View Race?
SEGREGATION

4 Background: A New Generation of Black Leadership
1880s and 1890s: At Least Limited Progress for African Americans

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

6 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”

7 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.

8 Response of Southern Demos: The Race Card
Democrats Accused Populists of Being “Soft” on Race.” Populists Eventually Responded with Their Own Racism, Abandoning Blacks Pitchfork Ben Tillman Senator, SC

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

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

11 Black Political Response: Booker T. Washington
Ex-Slave; Founder of the Tuskegee Institute

12 Black Political Response: Booker T. Washington
Ex-Slave; Founder of the Tuskegee Institute Atlanta Exposition Speech (1895)

13 Black Political Response: Booker T. Washington
Ex-Slave; Founder of the Tuskegee Institute Atlanta Exposition Speech (1895) Practical Economic Progress

14 Black Political Response: W. E. B. DuBois
Harvard Graduate: Historian and Intellectual Talented Tenth NAACP in 1909 (edited Crisis)

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

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

17 American Foreign Policy
Progressivism and the Rise of American Imperialism

18 Americans Traditionally Aloof of “Overseas” Imperialism
Frontier to Settle (America’s Empire Was Contiguous—A Supposedly “Empty” Landscape). Empires Viewed as Corrupt, Undemocratic

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

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

21 Explaining the March to Empire : RELIGION AND RACE

22 Point to Stress: Empire not Inevitable
Anti-Imperial League: William Jennings Bryan

23 Point to Stress: Empire not Inevitable
Anti-Imperial League: William Jennings Bryan Anti-Imperial League: Andrew Carnegie

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