Racism & ProgressivismJamie Berg, Alessandra Policastro, Alyssa

Bennett & Emma Corcodilos

Progressive Reformers Muckraker Ray Stannard Baker

spoke out against racial injustice Progressive reformers often led

the movement for black disfranchisement and segregation

The Birth of a Nation

Woodrow Wilson praised the racist movie The Birth of a Nation

Atlanta Compromise

At age sixteen, Washington enrolled at a freedmen’s school in Hampton, established by a Civil War general named Samuel Chapman

Once blacks proved their economic value to society, he predicted that racism would fade away, meanwhile they must patiently accept their lot

William Monroe Trotter William Monroe Trotter, the editor of a

black newspaper, in 1902 called Washington’s acceptance of black disfranchisement “a fatal blow… to the Negro’s political rights and liberty.”

Controversy Among African-Americans

Du Bois taught from 1896-1910 at Atlanta University

Rejecting Washington’s call for patience and the exclusive cultivation of manual skills

The National Association for the Advancement of Colored People

Settlement-house worker Mary White Ovington helped found the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People

Establishing the NAACP Nespaper publisher Oswald Garrison

Villard, grandson of abolitionist William Lloyd Garrison

In 1909 Villard and his allies with Du Bois and other blacks from the Niagara Movement formed the National Association for the advancement of colored people (NAACP)

NAACP called for the political equality for blacks and an end from the racial discrimination

1914 the NAACP had 6,000 members, attracting the urban black middle class