HIST 151 Lecture 17 Chapter 21 Progressivism from Grass Roots to the White House cont Outline of Last Lecture I Federal Reserve Act II Muller v Oregon and the Brandeis Brief III The Jungle Pure Food and Drug Act Meat Inspection Act IV Addams and Settlement House Movement Outline of Current Lecture I Triangle Shirtwaist Fire II Booker T Washington W E B DuBois NAACP III Plessy v Ferguson Current Lecture Triangle Shirtwaist Fire 1911 A factory in New York City filled with immigrant workers mostly women ages 18 to 23 caught fire The factory made women s blouses which were flammable and made the fire easier to spread All the stairways were locked due to the owners of the factory wanting to prevent workers from taking unauthorized breaks Many jumped from windows to their deaths burned or suffocated on the smoke 123 women and 23 men died The factory owners were tried for manslaughter but acquitted thus bringing the attention of the public to a need for better safety measures for workers and consequences for business owners Booker T Washington W E B DuBoise NAACP Washington was a part of the last generation of African Americans to be born into slavery He was a political leader and public figure for black people across America His Atlanta Compromise put the focus on black people gaining education and good economic standing for the long term rather than militancy over Jim Crow segregation These notes represent a detailed interpretation of the professor s lecture GradeBuddy is best used as a supplement to your own notes not as a substitute W E B DuBoise opposed Washington s ideologies and created the NAACP National Association for the Advancement of Colored People This group was more militant and believed in full civil rights and equality now instead of slowly trying to gain equality through education and economics Plessy v Ferguson A court case in which separate but equal laws were upheld and deemed constitutional Homer Plessy was a man of mixed racial decent 7 8ths European and 1 8th African and deemed black by the state of Louisiana thus forced to ride in a colored rail car even though he bought a first class ticket in a white only car Plessy argued that his rights under the 13th and 14th amendments were violated but judge Ferguson argued that the state had a right to regulate the rails how they saw fit within state lines Plessy lost all the way up to the Supreme Court
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