1. Warm up
Think about the muckrakers and and the corruption/atrocities that were exposed. As a citizen, what issue is the most important to you? What should have priority in getting fixed?

2. 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
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

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

4. 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

5. Two African American Intellectuals Two Approaches to Equality
W.E.B. DuBois
Booker T. Washington

6. B.T. Washington’s Plan Blacks should start from the bottom and work up
ACCEPT Jim Crow: work for economic opportunity
Believed that racial equality would have to be earned over generations
Build economic base with farming/industry
Civil/political rights NOT as important as economic opportunity
Born a slave
Educated at Hampton University
Founder of Tuskegee University

7. DuBois's Plan Demanded immediate equality
Argued that blacks should strive to achieve jobs in management and professional fields and be politically active to safeguard their legal rights
Refused to accept segregation as a social norm or wait for social equality
Born in Boston, Mass. as a free black
Educated at Fisk and Harvard University
Initially supported
B. T. Washington

8. African Americans Demand Reform
Niagara Movement: demanded immediate equality of AAs and denounced gradual progress
National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP): use the court system to challenge unfair laws
Denounced Booker T. Washington saying his plan would make workers, but not “men”
Goal was to secure for all people the rights guaranteed in the 13th 14th and 15th amendments
First president was a white lawyer
Civil rights movement which sought a “mighty current” of change
Called for an end to segregation and open opposition in the black community to beliefs like Booker T. Washington’s