Limits of Progressivism African Americans and Equality

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Limits of ProgressivismAfrican Americans and
Equality

• Section 6.2

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Todays Agenda

• Current Events
• 6.3 slide show
• Presentations
• Homework
• Read 6.3
• Unit Test next week (on Progressivism)

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At the end of this lesson, you should be able to

•  What was the Compromise of 1877?
•  What were Jim Crow laws?
•  Describe Plessy v Ferguson (1896).
•  What is lynching?
•  Who is Ida B. Wells?
•  Who was Booker T. Washington? 
•  Who was W.E.B. Dubois?
• Who is D.W. Griffith? 

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What had the progressives accomplished?

• 19th Amendment
• Mueller v Oregon
• Childrens Crusade
• Meat Inspection Act
• Wisconsin Experiment
• Laboratories of Democracy
• What did it fail to accomplished?

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Lynching
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How can this happen in AMERICA?
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What was the Compromise of 1877?

• Political compromise in which southern democrats
  agreed to support Rutherford B. Hayes as
  president if Hayes would withdraw troops from
  South
• Opened door for white southerners to retake power

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What were Jim Crow laws?

• Southern state laws which segregated blacks and
  whites
• Railway cars, bathrooms, restaurants, theaters,
  schools, voting
• Denied access to parks, beaches, hospitals

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Plessy v Ferguson Presentation
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Describe Plessy v Ferguson (1896).

• Supreme court case that legalized Jim Crow laws
• separate but equal
• Homer Plessy arrested for sitting in white only
  section of RR car
• 7-1 decision against Plessy
• Justice Harlan dissented
• Our Constitution is color-blind

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Plessy v. Ferguson
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Lynching Presentation
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What is lynching?

• Mob (vigilante) murder
• Usually racially motivated
• For purported crime or for violating their
  proper station
• Method of terror/ intimidation

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Who is Ida B. Wells?

• Black muckraker
• Had refused to give up her seat in a RR car
• Scathing articles reduced lynching by 25
• Launched Anti-lynching league

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African Americans the Progressive Era
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Booker T. Washington Presentation
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Who was Booker T. Washington?

• African American Progressive reformer
• Atlanta Compromise
• accommodation policy towards whites
• With hard work and economic independence blacks
  will end racism of whites
• Tuskegee Institute (Alabama)
• Vocational school
• 38 trades (farming, plumbing, nursing)

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W.E.B. Dubois Presentation
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Who was W.E.B. Dubois?

• Helped found NAACP
• National Association for the Advancement of
  Colored People
• The Souls of Black Folk (1903)
• Openly attacked Atlanta Compromise and idea of
  educating in trades
• Talented Tenth
• Elite blacks should get university degrees

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Washington v Dubois
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Who is D.W. Griffith?

• Film director of The Birth of a Nation
• 1st feature length film
• Depicts slavery as benign, and the Ku Klux Klan
  as a band of heroes restoring order to a
  post-Reconstruction black-ruled South

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D.W. Griffiths Birth of a Nation
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Billy Holiday Presentation
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Strange Fruit

• Southern trees bear strange fruit,Blood on the
  leaves and blood at the root,Black bodies
  swinging in the southern breeze,Strange fruit
  hanging from the poplar trees.Pastoral scene of
  the gallant south,The bulging eyes and the
  twisted mouth,Scent of magnolias, sweet and
  fresh,Then the sudden smell of burning
  flesh.Here is fruit for the crows to pluck,For
  the rain to gather, for the wind to suck,For the
  sun to rot, for the trees to drop,Here is a
  strange and bitter crop.