Chapter 21 Part 8
Women's Christian Temperance Movement
(pg 535) WCTU, Largest women's group by 1911, they say drinking by workers and immigrants leads to low productivity and poverty, women's movement to stop Prohibition
Triangle Shirtwaist Fire
(pg 582), a fire in New York's Triangle Shirtwaist Company in 1911 killed 146 people, mostly women. They died because the doors were locked and the windows were too high for them to get to the ground. Dramatized the poor working conditions and let to federal regulations to protect workers.
NAACP
(pg 583) , National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, founded in 1909 to abolish segregation and discrimination, to oppose racism and to gain civil rights for African Americans, got Supreme Court to declare grandfather clause unconstitutional
Buchanan v. Worley
(pg 584), (1917) the justices struck down a Louisville, Kentucky ordinance that required whites and blacks to live in seperate communities
Guinn v. US
(pg 584), The so-called Grandfather Clause of the amendment to the constitution of Oklahoma of 1910 is void because it violates the Fifteenth Amendment to the Constitution of the United States.
