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Reconstruction to Progressive Era

Reconstruction to Progressive Era. 1873: Ku Klux Klan. Reconstruction to Progressive Era. 1875: Civil Rights Act (prohibits discrimination in public places). Reconstruction to Progressive Era.

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Reconstruction to Progressive Era

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  1. Reconstruction to Progressive Era 1873: Ku Klux Klan

  2. Reconstruction to Progressive Era 1875: Civil Rights Act (prohibits discrimination in public places)

  3. Reconstruction to Progressive Era 1883 Civil Rights Cases(14th Amendment/Equal Protection does not apply to private businesses and acts)

  4. Reconstruction to Progressive Era Black codes/Jim Crow Laws start to take shape and Segregation grows

  5. Reconstruction to Progressive Era Timothy Thomas Fortune Formed the Afro-American League predecessor to NAACP (1884) Focus on Self-Help Failed (lack of funding)

  6. Reconstruction to Progressive Era PlessyV. Ferguson (1896) (Segregation/Jim Crow Laws are OK as long as facilities are equal)

  7. Reconstruction to Progressive Era PlessyV. Ferguson (1896) (Segregation/Jim Crow Laws are OK as long as facilities are equal)

  8. HOWARD UNIVERSITY

  9. TUSKEGEE INSTITUTE

  10. Two African Americans, Two Diverse Backgrounds Booker T. Washington W.E.B. DuBois

  11. Booker T. Washington • Outlined his views on race relations in a speech at the Cotton States and International Exposition in Atlanta – “Atlanta Compromise” • Felt that black people should work to gain economic security before equal rights • Believed black people will “earn” equality

  12. Booker T. Washington • Developed programs for job training and vocational skills at Tuskegee Institute • Asked whites to give job opportunities to black people • Was popular with white leaders in the North and South

  13. Booker T. Washington • Was unpopular with many black leaders • Associated with leaders of the Urban League which emphasized jobs and training for blacks

  14. Booker T. Washington g Born a slave in southwestern Virginia g Believed in vocational education for blacks g Founded Tuskegee Institute in Alabama g Believed in gradual equality • Accused of being an “Uncle Tom” g Received much white support g Wrote Up From Slavery (1901)

  15. W.E.B. DuBois • Views given in The Souls of Black Folks and The Crisis • Strongly opposed Booker T. Washington’s tolerance of segregation • Demanded immediate equality for blacks

  16. W.E.B. DuBois • Felt talented black students should get a classical education • Felt it was wrong to expect citizens to “earn their rights” • Founded the NAACP along with other black and white leaders

  17. W.E.B. DuBois g Born in 1868 in Great Barrington, Massachusetts • Well educated-First African American to receive • Ph.D. from Harvard • Wanted immediate equality between blacks and • whites g Wanted classical higher education for blacks g Wrote The Souls of Black Folk (1903) g The Niagara Movement – led to NAACP

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