1. Promoting Social Welfare
The Progressives
Promoting Social Welfare

2. Who are the Progressives?
Mostly middle class
Often highly educated
Usually from small towns but lived in urban areas
Most were white
Goal: Change the country for the better

3. What is “social welfare”?
Another phrase for the “well being” of the country.

4. Progressive Reforms Conditions and treatment of the urban poor
Problem
Conditions and treatment of the urban poor
Child labor
Domestic violence
Poor health care for women and lack of family planning services
Lynching
Working conditions in the factories
Food sanitation

5. Conditions and Treatment of the Urban Poor

6. Child Labor

7. Domestic Violence

8. Poor health care for women and lack of family planning services

9. Lynching Causes: Racism Fear of equality
Fear of sexual relations between
the races
Economic competition

10. Lynching Strange Fruit
Southern trees bear a strange fruit Blood on the leaves and blood at the root Black bodies swingin' in the Southern breeze Strange fruit hangin' from the poplar trees Pastoral scene of the gallant South The bulgin' eyes and the twisted mouth Scent of magnolias sweet and fresh Then the sudden smell of burnin' flesh Here is a fruit for the crows to pluck For the rain to gather, for the wind to suck For the sun to rot, for the tree to drop Here is a strange and bitter crop

11. Factory Working Conditions

12. Food Sanitation