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The Progressive Era (1890s–1920s) [1] [2] was a period in the United States characterized by multiple social and political reform efforts. [ 3 ] [ 4 ] Reformers during this era, known as Progressives , sought to address issues they associated with rapid industrialization , urbanization , immigration , and political corruption , as well as the ...
The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness. New York: New Press. ISBN 978-1-59558-103-7. Ayers, Edward L. The Promise of the New South: Life After Reconstruction. New York: Oxford University Press, 1992. ISBN 0-1950-3756-1; Barnes, Catherine A. Journey from Jim Crow: The Desegregation of Southern Transit.
The civil rights movement (1896–1954) was a long, primarily nonviolent action to bring full civil rights and equality under the law to all Americans. The era has had a lasting impact on American society – in its tactics, the increased social and legal acceptance of civil rights, and in its exposure of the prevalence and cost of racism.
Gilded Age: 1877–1896 Progressive Era: ... Gilded Age (1869–c. 1896) Jim Crow era (1876–1965) Gay Nineties (1890s) Nadir of American race relations (c. 1890 ...
Photo Illustration by Elizabeth Brockway/The Daily Beast/Getty/Mississippi Department of Archives and HistoryThis month marks the 60th anniversary of a group of ...
Buenker, John D. and Joseph Buenker, eds. Encyclopedia of the Gilded Age and Progressive Era. (3 vol 2005) ISBN 0-7656-8051-3; 900 essays by 200 scholars; Buenker, John D., John C. Burnham, and Robert M. Crunden. Progressivism (1986) Buenker, John D. Dictionary of the Progressive Era (1980) Cooper, John Milton. Woodrow Wilson: A Biography (2009)
At a June 4 event in Philadelphia, Donalds compared today’s Black culture with that of the Jim Crow era, when Black people in the South were subject to multiple forms of state-sponsored ...
Gilded Age: 1877–1896 Progressive Era: ... Jim Crow era (1896–1954) ... At the age of 46, Grant was the youngest president yet elected, and the first president ...