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Challenges to Progressivism: Struggles for Equality and Civil Rights

The Progressive Era faced hurdles in achieving equality and civil rights. African Americans in the South lived in poverty, while segregation and discriminatory laws persisted. Booker T. Washington promoted economic improvement, while W.E.B. DuBois advocated for education and higher aspirations. Immigration brought nativism, leading to intolerance and division. Despite efforts, the quest for equality and civil rights faced obstacles.

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Challenges to Progressivism: Struggles for Equality and Civil Rights

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  1. Limits to Progressivism

  2. Equality • Progressives wanted to change the world; but some were not ready for change • 2/3 of blacks in the South lived in poverty • Sharecropping (Insured poverty) • Many moved North (Faced same prejudice)

  3. Segregation • Plessy vs. Ferguson • "The object of the [Fourteenth] Amendment was undoubtedly to enforce the absolute equality of the two races before the law, but in the nature of things it could not have been intended to abolish distinctions based upon color, or to enforce social, as distinguished from political, equality, or a commingling of the two races upon terms unsatisfactory to either." • —Justice Henry Billings Brown, • Supreme court rules that segregation is legal • Separate but equal; never but equal • Jim Crow Laws

  4. 2 Versions of Civil Rights • Booker T. Washington- Accommodation • A.A’s need to improve their economic situation first. • Jobs not rights • W.E.B. DuBois- Believed Accommodation was wrong • A.A’s should strive for higher education etc.

  5. Immigrant Rights • United States became a melting pot • Cities became divided by race, nationalities etc. • Nativism- rejection of native-born citizens • Called for limits on immigration • America, as a country, became intolerant • Segregation, Nativism etc.

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