Ideals of the era for a class’s society based on moral values and economic equality

The Progressive Movement of the Turn of the Century epitomized the high minded ideals of the era for a class’s society based on moral values and economic equality. However, they also held positions on race and ethnicity steeped in the Darwinian philosophy of social development that dominated the period.

Using the readings from Michael McGerr’s A Fierce Discontent: The Rise and Fall of the Progressive Movement in American 1870-1920 and Shelton Stromquist’s Re-Inventing “The People”: The Progressive Movement , the Class Problem, and the Origins of Modern Liberalism, analyze the Progressive’s positions on African Americans and Jim Crow? Did they believe African Americans were entitled to the vote and other rights as citizens or did they support segregation? Did they believe that African Americans could, like “new immigrant” groups, could be assimilated into model Americans? If not, then why?
You will write an essay to answer these questions.

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