AMH 2020 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Italian Hall, Passenger Ship, Alice Paul
20 Oct 2016
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Progressive era (1900-1920) reform society to get it back on track from the gilded age ruins. One uni ed america , with blacks being invisible optimism middle-class, urban progressivism talks about ef ciency and order back to progressivism speci cs. 4. local state nation at the most imp. Progressivism race at the turn of the century- ralph spelled wrong low point of racism in america. southern states even implement codes, laws, new constitutions, so blacks know they"re inferior. Jim crow- legalized segregation in the south systematic disfranchisement of blacks- taking away their right to vote. 1890-1920: ralph spelled wrong worst time for racial relations in history. Ralph nader consumer advocate. spelled nadir > means low point lynching at high point. 1896: plessy vs ferguson- about legalized segregation rules 8 to 1 that segregation is legal because separate but equal until 1950s. 1902-florida passes avery bill-says blacks and whites can"t sit in same cars of trains and trolleys unless their nannies.
