HIST 128 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Ida Tarbell, Nineteenth Amendment To The United States Constitution
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National association for the advancement of colored people (naacp) Use ida b wells to look at muckrakers. Muckrakers: journalists who sought to bring national attention to social problems and issues of industrialization. Corruption in businesses/ poverty/ unsafe working conditions/ child labor. Ex) jacob reese - how the other half lives used his photos to show inequality and urban spaces. Women were active journalist ida tarbell wrote expose on rockafeller. Ida b wells african american journalist who exposed injustices. Taught school before she moved into journalism. Late 19th and early 20th century jim crow laws became a legal means of racial segregation. Jim crow: restricted where blacks and whites could congregate. African americans directed their efforts to build own institutions and businesses. Growth of black newspapers wells used to show attention to racial injustice. Booker t washington (1900) published his book. African americans created opportunity out of adversity but industrialization posed more issues violence = race riots, lynching.
