Grades 9-12: Disability in the Progressive Era | Emerging America
The Great American Fraud, by Samuel Hopkins Adams
U.S. Senate: "Treason of the Senate"
The 17th amendment doesn't get nearly enough attention. If students were made aware of the switch to popular election of Senators, they might be better equipped to think about the face that six Senators represent the 2 million people in Wyoming, Vermont and Alaska AND six Senators represent 90 million people in California, Florida and Texas
History of woman suffrage; : Stanton, Elizabeth Cady, 1815-1902 : Free Download, Borrow, and Streaming : Internet Archive
860+ pages written by the people who fought for the right to vote. This is just one of six volumes that included primary source record of the fight that went on for decades. This is ripe for a "Free-range" primary document exercise - what could student learn by searching different words and phrases through this book?
Margaret Sanger Papers Project
Many resources, articles and links. Be sure to check the "Documents online"
The Marcus Garvey and UNIA Papers Project, UCLA
The Marcus Garvey and UNIA Papers provides a full, objective account of the movement and its leader, as it chronicles how the movement achieved a global dimension by awakening the political consciousness of African and Caribbean peoples to the goals of racial self-determination and national independence.
Tulsa race massacre: Possible mass grave linked to 1921 race riot discovered - CBS News
What every girl should know by Margaret Sanger, 1913 (Book)
Teachers should look at the table of contents of this books before sharing it with students - but then absolutely sharing it with students. Students who know one or two factoids about Margaret Sanger have no idea what she actually did - looking at this book will shatter that ignorance in a matter of minutes. They should also know that the book was seized by the post office as a violation of the Comstock Law - https://embryo.asu.edu/pages/what-every-girl-should-know-1916-margaret-sanger
NFL Stadium Funding Information Stadiums Opened Since 1997
This report details private funding of NFL stadiums and in the process invalidates the labels we have to describe economic systems. Teachers need to open this link and look at the charts - just look at the charts and you'll know you have to share them with students
The coal smoke in Pittsburgh used to block out the sun
This series of photographs will help students better understand the pollution of the industrial age. Though today's students still face the challenge of climate change, they know little of the raw effects of America's industrial age
The Color of Law: Creating Racially Segregated Communities | Teaching Tolerance
This lesson uses Richard Rothstein's research to drive a lesson into the reality of structural racism in the United States, showing how local, state and federal policies promoted the segregation that we think of today as "De Facto",
Industrial Workers of the World | One Big Union!
Official site of the IWW
Independent Lens . KING CORN | PBS
This bookmark is not so much to recognize the value of this source, but rather the subject of the film itself. There is room for a Progressive Era lesson that traces the policies of the Progressive Era (Pure Food and Durg Act, Meat Inspection Act) in which students wrestle with the interest and role of the government in the health of citizens and the Agricultural Act of 1973, in which corn subsidies can be linked to a change in American diets that emphasize corn syrup sweeteners and obesity. Is there a link here?
Plessy v. Ferguson (1896)
The ruling in this Supreme Court case upheld a Louisiana state law that allowed for "equal but separate accommodations for the white and colored races." from Our Documents project
Berea College v. Kentucky (1908)
Can a private college in Kentucky accept both white and black students? The state of Kentucky said "No", and the Supreme Court upheld that law. In this decision, the Supreme Court upheld a Kentucky law entitled "An Act to Prohibit White and Colored Persons from Attending the Same School". Although Plessy v Ferguson gets most of the attention, this case also serves well to give students a better appreciation of the nature of discrimination before the modern Civil Rights movement.
Kentucky New Era 3 13 03 - Niggers in the White House - (Newspaper Advertisement)
This poem was printed in a number of newspapers across the country after Booker T Washington's visit to the White House. It resurfaced in later years in subsequent visits by African-Americans to the White House. Confronting 21stC students with this must be done with care.
Richmond Times newspaper's Reaction to Booker T Washington in the White House - October 1901
This Virginia newspaper recorded that they were shocked that Teddy Roosevelt would lower the dignity of the White House by dining with a Negro
Plessy v. Ferguson :: 163 U.S. 537 (1896) :Opinion of the Court
Text of the opinion itself. Students would be better served by a quote from the opinion than a teacher's bullet point description on a lecture slide
The argument also assumes that social prejudices may be overcome by legislation, and that equal rights cannot be secured to the negro except by an enforced commingling of the two races. We cannot accept this proposition. If the two races are to meet upon terms of social equality, it must be the result of natural affinities, a mutual appreciation of each other's merits, and a voluntary consent of individuals.
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<p> or politically. If one race be inferior to the other socially, the Constitution of the United States cannot put them upon the same plane.</p>
Heirs of Plessy v. Ferguson team up for change -
This five minute video is a local news broadcast featuring the great granddaughter New Orleans judge Ferguson and the great grandson of a cousin of Homer Plessy. Their meeting is hard to believe, but what they did after they met is even more important. Students should see this
How Woodrow Wilson’s racist policies eroded the Black civil service | Haas News | Berkeley Haas
Any argument referencing "systematic" racism would be well-served by research into the segregation of the federal workforce during the Wilson administration. Census data shows a significant wage gap and suppression of black home-ownership resulting from federally sanctioned segregation and discrimination
The History Place - Child Labor in America
Marcus Garvey: Look for me in the Whirlwind
Companion site for American Experience documentary. Includes timeline and extra information of people and events in film
Democracy and Education: Booker T. Washington Speech
How the Other Half Lives - Hypertext Version (Book)
an early publication of photojournalism by Jacob Riis, documenting squalid living conditions in New York City slums in the 1880s. It served as a basis for future "muckraking" journalism by exposing the slums to New York City's upper and middle classes.
Booker T. Washington. Up From Slavery: An Autobiography
When Washington's autobiography, Up From Slavery, was published in 1901, it became a bestseller and had a major impact on the African American community, its friends and allies. One of the results was a dinner invitation in 1901 by Theodore Roosevelt.
Upton Sinclair - The Jungle
Sinclair wrote the novel to highlight the plight of the working class and to show the corruption of the American meatpacking industry during the early-20th century. The novel depicts in harsh tones poverty, absence of social programs, unpleasant living and working conditions, and hopelessness prevalent among the working class, which is contrasted with the deeply-rooted corruption on the part of those in power.
Twenty Years at Hull House: Jane Addams (Book)
Memoir of the founder of the U.S. Settlement House movement, and the second woman to be awarded the Nobel Peace Prize
The Emma Goldman Papers
Emma Goldman (1869–1940) stands as a major figure in the history of American radicalism and feminism. An influential and well-known anarchist of her day, Goldman was an early advocate of free speech, birth control, women's equality and independence, and union organization. Her criticism of mandatory conscription of young men into the military during World War I led to a two-year imprisonment, followed by her deportation in 1919. For the rest of her life until her death in 1940, she continued to participate in the social and political movements of her age, from the Russian Revolution to the Spanish Civil War.
Theodore Roosevelt, The Conservation of Natural Resources (1907)
From Theodore Roosevelt's Seventh Annual Message to Congress\nDec. 3, 1907
The Souls of Black Folk, by W. E. B. DuBois (Book)
The book, published in 1903, contains several essays on race, some of which had been previously published in Atlantic Monthly magazine. Du Bois drew from his own experiences to develop this groundbreaking work on being African-American in American society. Outside of its notable place in African-American history, The Souls of Black Folk also holds an important place in social science as one of the early works to deal with sociology.