US History › Section K · Progressives and empire › Topic K.3
New voices for women and African Americans
The Progressive talk of perfecting democracy raised an obvious question: democracy for whom? Women and African Americans answered with new organisations, new leaders and fierce debates over strategy, and their work set the course of civil rights for the next century.
In this topic
- Two movements, one promise
- From Seneca Falls to a united association
- The West leads and the arguments shift
- Two strategies: Catt and Paul
- Worked example: why the amendment passed
- Black women and the limits of 1920
- Booker T. Washington's strategy
- Du Bois and the Niagara Movement
- Worked example: comparing Washington and Du Bois
- The NAACP is born
- Common mistakes to avoid
- Key takeaways
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