Other Reforms

While the progressives were trying to make changes in areas of corruption and business, some reformers tried to change things in other areas. Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Susan B. Anthony were seeking change in women's suffrage. Together they created the NWSA, the National Woman Suffrage Association. They wanted a constitutional amendment giving women the right to vote anywhere. Suffragists were spread across the nation trying to win women the right to vote. Slowly but surely more and more states were giving the women the right to vote. Finely, after Alice Paul wen to President Woodrow Wilson and told him that they were committed to getting an amendment signed, the 19th amendment was signed. This was a big victory women. Another place that people were trying to force change was justice for African Americans.  Booker T. Washington and W.E.B Du Bois were the two most know leaders speaking out for African Americans. They both had ideas about how to reform the nation. Booker T. Washington took a very laid back take on it. He advised African Americans to be patient and gradually move up in society. W.E.B Du Bois had a different idea. He thought that a laid back take should not be used. He urged African Americans to fight  for their rights and fight against segregation. Du Bois helped form the NAACP, National Association for the Advancement of Colored People. This association worked for the equal rights of African Americans. Another reformer Ida B. Wells wrote in her newspaper,  Free Speech. She spoke out against murders by lynching. All of these reformers helped shape the nation in many different ways to what it is today.