HISTORY 7B Lecture Notes - Sherman Antitrust Act, Triangle Shirtwaist Factory Fire, Upton Sinclair
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Range of efforts to movilize public opinion and achieve social justice. Two separate narratives from the 1890s to the 1910s, aa"s not call it the navier era (the worst), and whites: racism at aas expanded, racist terms for blacks were applied to. Filipinos jim crowe was formally adopted in southern states. Also the period that was the height of lynching in the south (see pics of segregation and naacp poster slide) On one level, it"s a movement, and it sort of overlaps with populism (which was rural) but progressivism was urban (prototypical = lewis hyne, jane addams, etc) They weren"t just interested in the problems of the cities though. There were way fewer farmers, more lawyers, journalists, and business types. Often called made up of middle class people (not labor and not capital). The presidents of this era are also progressive roosevelt, New kind of journalism characterized by a faith in investigative reporting and fact-finding.