African American Leadership during the Progressive Era Unit 3 Populism 1892 a 3 rd party called the Populists The Peoples Party Encouraged farmers to unite to defeat the Republican amp Democratic Parties ID: 769950
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African American Leadership during the Progressive Era Unit 3
Populism 1892, a 3rd party called the Populists –”The People’s Party” Encouraged farmers to unite to defeat the Republican & Democratic PartiesLed by Thomas Watson of Georgia Argued that both black & white tenant farmers were controlled by corporations & wealthy white landlords But still argued for segregation & white supremacy Southern Democrats used fraud & intimidation against blacks
Unit 3 African American Leadership during the Progressive Era
Warm Up What are the most significant issues in the African American community today?What kind of leadership is necessary to make positive change?Jesse Williams BET speech https:// www.youtube.com/watch?v=orXogk3euMA What issues does Jesse Williams bring up about African American life?
Progressive Era B/w 1890 – 1920, time of great social change caused by the negative effects of rapid economic & technological changesWhite middle –upper middle class movement; not interested in racial equality Wanted to improve: Working conditions Living conditions in citiesConsumer safety (food & drugs)Break up monopolistic corporationsWomen’s suffrageAfrican Americans will be their own leadershttp://www.truthrevolt.org/news/rare-truth-melissa-harris-perry-says-progressive-era-was-racist-video
Melissa Harris-Perry –Progressive Era was steeped in racism http://www.truthrevolt.org/news/rare-truth-melissa-harris-perry-says-progressive-era-was-racist-video
Three Approaches to Equality B/w 1890 – 1920, African American leaders championed three different approaches to racial equality: Direct confrontation of discrimination - Use courts to get equality & integration Accommodation of racial prejudice through separate schools, businesses, neighborhoods Racial pride & Pan-Africanism –segregation by choice
Organize your notes into the chart Booker T Washington W.E.B. Dubois Marcus Garvey
W.E.B. Dubois 1 st African American to earn a PhDProlific writer of non-fiction & fiction, including The Souls of Black FolksFounded the Niagara Movement, NAACP and The Crisis magazine The legal system had to be used to bring about equality, integration, voting rightsEarly supporter of Washington, but by 1903 attacks himBelieved that by not confronting white prejudice & Jim Crow laws, Washington & other accommodators were admitting the African Americans were inferior
Booker T. Washington Committed to industrial & agricultural education Advocated for accommodation –social segregation accepted, b/c if blacks made economic progress, whites would concede equality Co-founder of the Tuskegee Institute & University believed that African Americans would have to be educated & productive in order for white acceptance Atlanta Compromise Speech, 1895 1st African American to be a guest at the White HouseMany blacks supported his ideas early on, but criticized later on
Marcus Garvey Founded the United Negro Improvement Association (UNIA)Began movement in his native Jamaica, invited by Booker T. Washington to come to the US Popular in urban areas, set up his US program in NYCUsed religious influenced rhetoric –called ‘the Black Moses’ Argued that people of African ancestry would never be accepted by whites should return to Africa to build a new nationAfrican people should be freed from European colonizationFounded businesses‘The Black Star Line’ shipping businessWeekly newspaper ‘Negro World’Grocery stores & restaurants
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Independent Practice Read & Take Notes pp. 175-181 -Use graphic organizer p.174 2. Answer # 1- 9 pp 175 – 181Due at the end of class today
Warm Up Read the speech by Marcus Garvey, “If you believe the negro has a soul’, and answer the questions.
Washington vs. Dubois https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NnVt9RvN548
Gallery Walk: Washington, Dubois , Garvey? Description of Document Leader it is about How do you know? A B C D E F G
Close Whose words do you think made the most sense for African Americans during the Jim Crow Era and why?
America after the Civil War WEB Dubois https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TGOEED_MexIBooker T. Washington https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=07cispyOhWQ Marcus Garvey https:// www.youtube.com/watch?v=R-XjloOKl60 Reconstruction https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aOJch5C8aEghttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RNftCCwAol0