If Johnson was born at the end of one major era of social reform—Reconstruction, he lived his years as a competitive boxer under the thrall of another—the Progressive Era. Between 1912 and ...

It also seeks to develop thoughtful and honest debates about modern progressivism and its relationship to the earlier progressive era and other political and social movements throughout American ...

Labadie Collection. University of Michigan. The right to free speech is one of the most fundamental American guarantees, ratified as part of the Bill of Rights in 1791. Yet defining the limits of ...

Rapid urbanization in an increasingly segregated society during the Progressive Era created new social problems and needs for blacks. The segregation and exclusion of blacks by organized charity led ...