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Progressive Era and Race Reaction and Reform, 1900 - 1917

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ISBN-10: 088295234X

ISBN-13: 9780882952345

Edition: 2005

Authors: David W. Southern

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In this comprehensive, unflinching account, David W. Southern persuasively argues that race was the primary blind spot of the Progressive Movement. Based on the voluminous secondary works produced over the last forty years and his own primary research, Southern's synthesis vividly portrays the ruthless exploitation, brutality, and violence that whites inflicted on African Americans in the first two decades of the twentieth century. In the former Confederate states, where almost 90 percent of blacks resided, white progressives followed the lead of racist demagogues such as "Pitchfork" Ben Tillman and James Vardaman by consolidating the Jim Crow system of legal segregation and the…    
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Book details

List price: $23.95
Copyright year: 2005
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons, Incorporated
Publication date: 3/21/2005
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 240
Size: 5.42" wide x 8.00" long x 0.52" tall
Weight: 0.814
Language: English

Foreword
Acknowledgments
Introduction
The Denise of Reconstruction and the Making of White Supremacy, 1895—1900
Why Radical Reconstruction Started and Why It Faltered
The Redeemer Governments and Blacks
The 1890s: The Triumph of Racism
The Abandonment of Blacks by the North
Blacks React to a Revolution Gone Backwards
Tough-Minded Progressives and Race
The Shape and Promise of Progressivism
Scientific Racism and the Progressive Mind
Progressive Activists and the Race Problem
Literacy and Popular Culture and Race
African Americans and Southern Progressivism
What Racism Wrought: The Social and Economic Conditions of Blacks
Southern Progressivism and Race
The New Black Threat
The Completion of Disfranchisement
The Rise of Jim Crow Laws
Black Education in the South
The Southern Justice System
National Politics and Race, 1900—1917: The Great Betrayal
The Republican Party and the Race Question
The Watershed Election of 1912: The Democratic Triumph
The Supreme Court and Jim Crow
Black-White Relations in the North: Slouching toward the Nadir
The Washington—Du Bois Feud, the “New Negro,” and the Rise of the NAACP
Booker T. Washington and the Strategy of Compromise and Gradualism
W. E. B. Du Bois and the Strategy of Protest
The Niagara Movement and the Revolt against Washington
The Rise of the NAACP
Other Voices and Other Paths to Racial Uplift
Epilogue: World War I and Beyond
Bibliographical Essay
Index