Racism was still a fact of the progressive era, and southern white people had little sympathy for blacks, which is shown in President Roosevelt’s dealing of the Brownsville incident, where he was involved in a mass lynching of 167 black men who’s guilt was never questioned (Hewitt, 502) Northern whites still favored segregation. Many progressives were interested in political power than the interests of the people. Immigrants became targets and were forced to convert to the ways of white middle class Americans, being shunned from their own ideals, morals, and ways of living. Progressives expected people to hold themselves to a certain way of being, and acted superior to anyone different. These faults ultimately created a harsh reputation of the progressive
Racism was still a fact of the progressive era, and southern white people had little sympathy for blacks, which is shown in President Roosevelt’s dealing of the Brownsville incident, where he was involved in a mass lynching of 167 black men who’s guilt was never questioned (Hewitt, 502) Northern whites still favored segregation. Many progressives were interested in political power than the interests of the people. Immigrants became targets and were forced to convert to the ways of white middle class Americans, being shunned from their own ideals, morals, and ways of living. Progressives expected people to hold themselves to a certain way of being, and acted superior to anyone different. These faults ultimately created a harsh reputation of the progressive