...The 1920s in theory was a time that revamp the atmosphere of America. Hollywood was a buzzing, the radio brought the country together with fast delivery of news, and the jazz age took over the scene. But with the good came the bad. The bad has been overlooked in history due to people's love of the idea of the twenties. One of the most known and loved pieces of literature that takes place during the 1920’s The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald shows both the good and the bad in relation to the twenties. Although 1920’s have been associated with prosperity and luxurious it was truly has a time of hardship and pain because it was a time of social unrest, mobster and bootlegger ran the cities, and money became such a promate role it start to...
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...I remember the 1920s well in my younger years we loved to brawl punch, kick and bite. Actually most of the time we were actually in a bar heavily drunk. Steeplechase had made in its debut in the 1920 Antwerp Olympics (Antwerp 1920s Athletics). Some then caught the attention of scouts who wanted a man who could take a punch. Those people would then be taken in the arms of those scouts and put in the boxing league to make something outta themselves. When you think of the 1920s boxing era you all think about Jack Dempsey. In my time during the 1920s era it was all about ethnicity during the boxing era of the 1920s (Racism). Racism in boxing made it difficult for African American fighters to compete for world titles and a so called Negro circuit...
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...Segregation and Discrimination During the time of 1880-1920 there were many issues with racism for African-Americans who lived in the United States. Some of these issues raised many different events to occur. Events such as the Jim Crow Laws, or the Separate but Equal Laws, the Plessy vs. Ferguson trial, poll taxes, literacy tests, and the Grandfather Clauses. These events impacted the United States’ history in different ways, but they mostly impacted one thing: racism. The Jim Crow Laws legalized segregation in the United States in the 1800’s and 1900’s. This in turn made it legal to discriminate against African Americans in this time period. These laws showed just how much of an alteration there was between African Americans and the white man. For instance, there was a major difference in education, welfare, and health at these times. The Jim Crow Laws also deprived the black man of their right to vote. Some peopled have come to call the Jim Crows Laws the Separate but Equal Laws for their discrimination against the black man....
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...Cultural Conflicts of The 1920s Throughout the 1920s the United States faced harsh cultural conflicts including controversies with race and immigration. First, in the years leading up to the 1920s racial tension began to rapidly cultivate due to a multitude of reasons including the rapid change in the racial demographic of the northern economy, which up until that point had been principally white. African Americans who had fought in World War I had additionally began to express their want for civil rights due to their contributions in Europe in the war. The previous actions caused the eruption of violence from white mobs in several areas. One of the first cities to see the eruption of violence was Tulsa, Oklahoma which had contained the wealthiest African American business community in the Southwest. The violence commenced after a 19-year-old African American man was accused of assaulting a white female elevator operator which would give rise to a substantial amount of violence in which the number of killed and injured is not completely known with an approximate by the state of Oklahoma stating that 26 African Americans killed, 10 Caucasian killed, and 317 injured. Following the events in Tulsa on New Year’s Day 1923 the small African American settlement in Rosewood, Florida was attacked by a white mob believed to be from Georgia. The death toll from the incident has varying accounts with some newspapers reporting seven deaths and others 21.Hence, the early 1920s began the years of...
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...The Civil Rights Movement is popularly known to have started in the mid 1950’s—but I do agree with Jacquelyn Dowd Hall’s article “The Long Civil Rights Movement and the Political Uses of the Past” that the Civil Rights movement did not begin so late. Structurally, culturally, and ideologically the Civil Rights movement began decades before the nation became aware of it. The work of civil rights activists such as A Philip Randolph, beginning in the mid 1920’s, affected change in the structure of government by pushing for anti-discriminatory legislation for Black workers. Further affecting structural institutions was the effect that World War II had on Black Americans, who were disillusioned by the hypocrisy of the United States fighting for...
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...When I first began this research, I discovered that Black Feminism is too broad of a topic to elaborate on as a whole. This paper defines the term “Black Feminism. It will explore two published articles that report on the theory and practice of how black feminism is making waves and what role of education in the development of the Black Feminist Thought from 1860 to 1920. This paper will examine when the National Black Feminist Organization was founded and lastly, how two outstanding women who made an impact in the Black Feminist Movement. According to Encyclo (n.d.) online encyclopedia the definition of black feminism is “A strand of feminist thought which highlights the multiple disadvantages of gender, class and race that shape the experiences of nonwhite women. Black feminists reject the idea of a single unified gender oppression that is experienced evenly by all women, and argue that early feminist analysis reflected the specific concerns of white, middle-class women.” In other words, black feminist argue that the liberation of black women entails freedom for all people since it would require the end of racism, sexism and class oppression. This brings me to the theory and practice of black feminism and how it is making waves. According to Taylor (2001), … (Black Scholar, para. 2) states, “it seems that far too many black people continue to link the feminist movement exclusively to the activism of bourgeois white women and not to struggles initiated by African Americans...
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...have learnt a significant amount about the great depression, civil rights movement, Wars involving America, terrorism and other important events in American history. Up until the end of the 1920’s America was a country of success and great hope. The standard of living was high for the people who were wealthy and white, racism seemed to be a massive problem in America prior to this time and many decades following. While racism towards black people was an issue, it appears the sexist views towards...
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...Provide historical context/background for each document, connecting the individual accounts to the larger historical themes of the era. Compare the experiences and attitudes of each author. Based on the textbook and the videos, explain how all these documents relate to the social and economic developments that occurred in the United States during the Gilded Age (1865-1900). Ida B Wells described her bad experiences during the Gilded Age. She described how blacks were killed and lynched by the KKK. She states that whites would lynch blacks for any reason and see them as inferior. She was a journalist and a civil rights activist. The two documents relate to the social and economic developments during the gilded age. During the gilded age, there...
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...The Gilded Age and the Progressive Era are time periods that were significant in the growth of the American society. The Gilded occurred during the 1870’s to about 1900. Gilded, meaning wealth, refers to the flawless and neat society. However, underneath the gold, there is discrimination, corruption, and poverty. Although the gilded age was a time of industrial, economic and innovative accomplishments, discrimination against immigrants, poverty, gender oppression and political corruption were notable. The term was created by Mark Twain. Known as the second industrial revolution The Gilded Age was manufacturing and transporting goods became increasingly easy with the aid of machines and new railroads. Many breakthroughs and technological innovations...
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...THE CANADIAN HISTORY OF IMMIGRATNT WORKERS Canadian labour history is tainted by hatred, discrimination and fear of immigrant workers and immigration. This stems in part from Government sponsored racism and the capitalistic use of immigration as a means to defy the labour movement. We can start with the stereotyping and discrimination of the Irish in the 1840’s, our first large scale exploitable labour pool and move right through to today’s racial profiling and cultural unacceptance of Arabs and east Indians. Through our history the acceptance of immigrants gradually improve but even today we haven’t achieved an acceptable level of tolerance. Were not perfect but we eventually seem to learn from the mistakes of our past. After Mackenzie King and into the sixties government supported racism through our immigration department seemed on the decline. With the 1982 Charter of Rights and Freedoms Act being signed into the constitution we took a huge leap forward. However, this doesn’t erase a past full of discrimination and exploitation of immigrants by government, employers and labour. In Canadian history immigrant workers have been racially stereotyped, discriminated against and subjected to differing levels of acceptance within Canadian culture and the working class society. Immigrant workers found themselves in varying levels of distress upon arrival to Canada, being exploited by employers, shunned by labour and oppressed as second class citizens by government. This may be...
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...Ethnic Groups and Discrimination March 7, 2010 Ethnic groups came to the United States via migration as well as colonization. The Hispanic groups migrated to the United States back in the 1800’s. According to Public Broadcast System (2010), between 1850 and 1880 55,000 Mexican workers migrated to areas that had actually been Mexican soil but now was considered to be the United States. The Mexican workers were a vital job force for the economy; they worked for very low wages. Many of the Mexican workers also worked in situations that were considered in humane (Public Broadcast System, 2010). The Public Broadcast System (2010) website states that “between the period of 1942 and 1964, millions of Mexicans were imported into the U.S. as "braceros" under the Bracero Program to work temporarily on contract to United States growers and ranchers.” Prejudice dealings were among the many things that the Mexicans had to face. The working conditions alone could be considered a prejudice. Just because the workers were willing to work for a lower wage and forced to live and work in humane environments proved to be a form of discrimination. In the 1920’s there was a social prejudice against Mexicans, they were viewed as a threat to the health and morals to the rest of the society (National Park Service, 2004). In 1930 it was recommended that the classrooms be segregated between the Mexicans and the Americans. In fact, it was encouraged that the schools be segregated completely...
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...Lenin walks around the world. Frontiers cannot bar him. Neither barracks nor barricades impede. Nor does barbed wire scar him. Lenin walks around the world. Black, brown, and white receive him. Language is no barrier. The strangest tongues believe him. Lenin walks around the world. The sun sets like a scar. Between the darkness and the dawn. There rises a red star. – Langston Hughes In the early 1900’s there were very few political parties focused on the plight of African Americans and their quest for civil rights. Communism had inherent within its philosophy the idea that all men and women are equal and focused on an economic model that purported to promote that equality. Karl Marx believed that capitalism thrived on exploitation and he had very concrete notions on slavery. He stated: Direct slavery is just as much the pivot of bourgeois industry as machinery, credits, etc. Without slavery you have no cotton; without cotton you have no modern industry. It is slavery that has given the colonies their value; it is the colonies that have created world trade, and it is world trade that is the pre-condition of large-scale industry. Thus slavery is an economic category of the greatest importance (Marx, 1975). Without slavery Marx believed that it would have been impossible for America to thrive. They needed that free labor to be able to build a profitable industry and forge the nation. Thus the enslavement of an entire race of people was necessary for a capitalist country...
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...Following the prosperity of the 1920’s, an economic crisis struck Canada and the entire world: the Great Depression. For nearly a decade, poverty, unemployment, and droughts plagued the country with the government taking little action. Work camps and government relief were unable to sustain families or individuals, leading to the rise of radical ideas and changes. New political parties supporting communism and socialism was the start of new changes later implemented in Canada. During this period, many were fighting for equality and justice (the on-to Ottawa trek). Around the world, extremism was on the rise: fascism in Spain, Italy and Germany, and totalitarianism in Japan. Canadians volunteered to join the International Brigade to help during the...
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...W.E.B DeBois In his work The Souls of Black Folk, WEB DuBois had described the life and problems that blacks in America were facing, was not easy. DuBois had a very different plan in the struggle for black equality and the struggle for the abolishment of racism. There were those individuals that wanted a "separate black nation" and others that just wanted the blacks to stay submissive. DuBois only wanted blacks to work hard to become active parts of American society. Through his writings, speaking, and political activism, W.E.B DuBois devoted his life to advancing black movement to a higher level. The questions that we can access from W.E.B Debois that contributes to sociology or society as we know it is: 1) How can one be a part of a society that excludes him or her? 2) How can one fight the oppression of being alienated? 3) In what 1 way in today’s society can people of color rise above the color line “racism” that W.E.B DeBois focus on? What strategy is used today did W.E.B DuBois focus on to sociology or society as we know it.that is studied through Sociology a strategy called the gradualist political strategy. The gradualist political strategy tells that Dubois was very focused on blacks being book smart to get anywhere in life. DuBois always practiced what he preached. His speeches influenced many, and always used the pen as his mightiest weapon. He used it to encourage blacks to be proud and have pride in everything they have accomplished. DuBois had used...
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...Vega Instructor’s Name Class Information April 7, 2014 Human Rights in the 1920’s “Human Rights” refer to the basic rights and freedoms that all humans are entitled to including the right to life, equality before the law and freedom of expression. Human rights provide equality and fairness and recognize the people’s choice of freedom. Every human has the right to live free from fear, harassment or discrimination. During the 1920’s women’s rights, immigration, and racism were the biggest topics in human rights. Women’s rights were paramount in the 1920’s. The 19th Amendment was passed by Congress on June 4, 1919 and ratified on August 18, 1920. The 19th amendment guarantees all American women the right to vote. This was a lengthy and difficult struggle that took activists and reformers nearly 100 years to win. Some of the key leaders of this movement were Elizabeth Stanton, Lucretia Mott, and Susan B. Anthony. These three women, along with the assistance of many others, were pivotal in shifting the public’s view on a women’s right to vote and be contributing members of the nation. During the nineteenth century, women organized, petitioned, lectured, marched, rioted, and practiced civil disobedience in order to get freedom. Since the 19th Amendment was first introduced in 1878 and not ratified until August 19, 1920, most of the woman who started the movement didn’t live to see it passed. After the passing of the 19th Amendment...
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