African-Americans In The 1920's

Agustin Banuelos

Hist 313

Prof. Diana Reed

December 6, 2015

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African-Americans in the South (1910’s - 1920’s) America in the 1920’s was not as friendly and diverse as it is today. Many ethnic groups were discriminated against and hated by the general populace. A group that is a great example of just how much America has changed in its short span of two-hundred-and-thirty-nine years. It went from being a place where such people were murdered and lynched for being a different color, to a place where they can thrive and make a respectable living. In the year 1920 there were roughly 10.5 million African-Americans living in the United States of America, making up approximately ten percent of its total population. Many of them lived

The re-rise of the Ku Klux Klan around 1915, combined with the strangle hold Jim Crow laws had on African-Americans in the South, raised pressures in the middle of blacks and whites in the United States. A rush of rough racial meetings started to rise in the 1920s, starting a standout amongst the most socially turbulent times in America 's history.

Jim Crow was a well-known minstrel show performed by a white performer who glaringly ridiculed African-Americans. The expression "Jim Crow Law" came to be utilized to depict the isolation framework utilized fundamentally as a part of the South from 1877 to the mid-1950s. Signs told African-Americans where they could and couldn 't go. Eating zones in eateries, drinking fountains and even bathrooms were isolated.

In the late spring of 1919, race mobs blasted all through Northern and Southern urban communities. Amid this "Red Summer," there were 26 uproars in the middle of April and October. In Chicago, 38 were slaughtered and 500 harmed. Uproars proceeded through the 1920s. In 1921 in Tulsa, Oklahoma, a white lift administrator asserted that a dark man had assaulted her. The man was captured. White inhabitants set homes ablaze and vandalized dark possessed organizations. Thirty-five city squares were burned and more than 6,000 African-Americans were captured

The experience of battling in World War I alongside presentation to distinctive racial mentalities in Europe affected the dark veterans by making a far reaching interest for the opportunities and uniformity for which they had battled. Those veterans discovered conditions at home as awful as ever. Some were struck even while wearing their outfits in public. This era reacted with a much more activist soul than the era some time recently, encouraging blacks to battle back when whites assaulted them. A. Philip Randolph presented the term the "New Negro" in 1917; it turned into the catchphrase to portray the new soul of militancy and fretfulness of the post-war period.

A gathering known as the African Blood Brotherhood, a communist gathering with countless émigrés in its initiative, composed around 1920 to request the same kind of self-determination for dark Americans that the Wilson organization was promising to Eastern European people groups at the Versailles meeting in the result of World War I. The pioneers of the Brotherhood, a considerable lot of whom joined the Communist Party in the years to come, were likewise motivated by the counter settler project of the new Soviet Union (Journal of the