Mon 10/12 No Class
17. Wed 10/14 African-American Progressives – also please bring a printed copy of a rough draft/outline of your research paper to class
Reading: GML Ch 18 (645-661)
PS = Ida B. Wells (read part – it’s long); Letter to McKinley; Lynching from the Negro View AND “The Progress of Colored Women,” 1898
18. Fri 10/16 The American City and its Muckrakers; Labor and Women’s Movements
Reading: GML Ch 18 (637-645, 661-677) “Urban Age and Consumer Society,” “The Politics of Progressivism,” and “Progressive Presidents”
PS = Jungle excerpt; Bloor article; Carrie Chapman Catt; Eugene Debs; Bill Haywood
See also this Cornell University website on the Triangle Shirtwaist Fire
