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42. Progressivism Sweeps the Nation

Where the movement came from, the muckrakers who fed it, the winning of suffrage, and the argument between Booker T. Washington and W. E. B. DuBois.

42. Progressivism Sweeps the Nation

Student in the Electrical Division at Tuskegee Institute Conservatives beware! Whether they liked it or not, the turn of the 20th century was an age of reform…

42a. Roots of the Movement

The first page to Edward Bellamy's "Looking Backward" in which people from the year 2,000 look back to 1887 The single greatest factor that fueled the progress…

42b. Muckrakers

Upton Sinclair published The Jungle in 1905 to expose labor abuses in the meat packing industry. But it was food, not labor, that most concerned the public. Si…

42c. Women's Suffrage at Last

Youngest parader in New York City suffragist parade American Press AssociationSuffrage parade, New York City, May 4, 1912 Preserved by the Library of Congress…

42d. Booker T. Washington

Library of CongressHistory students at Tuskegee Institute, 1902 At the dawn of the 20th century, nine out of ten African Americans lived in the South. Jim Crow…

42e. W. E. B. DuBois

Founding members of the Niagara Movement, formed to assert full rights and opportunity to African Americans. "We want full manhood suffrage and we want it now…