Progressivism Part II - Race Relations

This is what we talked about on Tuesday, June 22...

Racial Issues during the Progressive Era

The issue of "race" was not as important as other causes during the Progressive Era such as Women's suffrage, prohibition, labor conditions

Basically, few white progressives looked at the African-American situation

Ray Stannard Baker's "Following the Color Line"

Constitutional Rights vs Civil Rights - Blacks still faced discrimination and prejudice, violence and inequality in most parts of the nation

Violence - lynchings, "mob justice", etc.

Reasons and justification for "mob justice"

Ida B. Wells

National Association for the Advancement of Colored People

W.E.B. Du Bois

The Brownsville Raid