Progressive Movement Leaders and Influencers

Booker T. Washington

Black leader in Progressive Movement, advocated education

W.E.B. Du Bois

Harvard graduate, disagreed with Washington on racism

Woodrow Wilson

Progressive President during WWI, advocated New Freedom

Theodore Roosevelt

Progressive President, promoted New Nationalism and Square Deal

W. H. Taft

Endorsed by Roosevelt, aimed to continue progressive plans

Eugene V. Debs

Labor Leader and Socialist, imprisoned for draft resistance

Warren G. Harding

Elected on a platform of 'Return to Normalcy'

Emilio Aguinaldo

Filipino leader who resisted American occupation

Takao Ozawa

Japanese man who claimed whiteness, denied citizenship

Carrie Chapman Catt

President of Women Suffrage Movement, advocated for voting rights

Marcus Garvey

Founded Black Star Line, promoted African American repatriation

Bhagat Singh Thind

Identified as white but denied U.S. citizenship due to race

Emma Goldman

Anarchist with radical views on government oppression

Bartolomeo Vanzetti and Nicola Sacco

Italian immigrants executed for anarchist beliefs