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Not only did Roosevelt advocate the ‘square deal,’ but he was known as the ‘trust-buster’. Trusts were the merging of big companies, monopolies, to control the marketing of certain products. In 1890, he upheld the Sherman Anti-trust Act, passed by Harrison, which made trusts/ monopolies illegal. However, it was initially misused against unions. During his
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Despite the efforts of Booker T. Washington, W.E.B. DuBois, and President Theodore Roosevelt, racial inequality remained an issue. Washington made a famous speech called the “Atlanta Compromise” which said that blacks should focus on gaining economic power rather than concentrate on gaining civil rights and political equality. When Washington’s plan didn’t bring forth any better change, DuBois voiced his that blacks should strive for full rights immediately rather than wait for them to be handed to them because that would never happen. He founded the NAACP to fight for the rights he and other African Americans were entitled to but weren’t given. President Roosevelt set an example for the people on how they should act. He was the first president to entertain a black guest at the white house. He sent his children to a desegregated school, spoke out against lynching on several occasions, and placed qualifying blacks in jobs of power. All of his actions were protested. Irrespective of his attempts and those of Booker T. Washington and W.E.B. DuBois, after his presidency racial inequality hit a setback. The name of this setback was Woodrow Wilson. He was racist and did nothing to promote racial equality. Unlike Roosevelt, he did not speak out against lynchings; rather he did nothing to stop them. Laws were put in place to prevent blacks from obtaining any sort of political power, for instance, poll taxes and literacy requirements. One might think that these laws are fair because they affect both blacks and whites however they simply are not due to the grandfather clause that was put into place saying that any man, whose grandfather had voted, could vote. Being that blacks had only come out of slavery and been allowed to vote just a few
Despite the efforts of Booker T. Washington, W.E.B. DuBois, and President Theodore Roosevelt, racial inequality remained an issue. Washington made a famous speech called the “Atlanta Compromise” which said that blacks should focus on gaining economic power rather than concentrate on gaining civil rights and political equality. When Washington’s plan didn’t bring forth any better change, DuBois voiced his that blacks should strive for full rights immediately rather than wait for them to be handed to them because that would never happen. He founded the NAACP to fight for the rights he and other African Americans were entitled to but weren’t given. President Roosevelt set an example for the people on how they should act. He was the first president to entertain a black guest at the white house. He sent his children to a desegregated school, spoke out against lynching on several occasions, and placed qualifying blacks in jobs of power. All of his actions were protested. Irrespective of his attempts and those of Booker T. Washington and W.E.B. DuBois, after his presidency racial inequality hit a setback. The name of this setback was Woodrow Wilson. He was racist and did nothing to promote racial equality. Unlike Roosevelt, he did not speak out against lynchings; rather he did nothing to stop them. Laws were put in place to prevent blacks from obtaining any sort of political power, for instance, poll taxes and literacy requirements. One might think that these laws are fair because they affect both blacks and whites however they simply are not due to the grandfather clause that was put into place saying that any man, whose grandfather had voted, could vote. Being that blacks had only come out of slavery and been allowed to vote just a few