The roaring 20s was a time of drastic changes, from poverty after World War 1 to women's voting rights. The lack of seriousness created a downhill crash in the stock market, causing the first major signals of the Great Depression.(ThoughtCO) The roaring 20’s was a time of great improvement and advancement as well, and these events helped shape the lifestyles we have today. In the 1920’s women won the right to vote by the adoption of the 19th amendment, and it won by one vote. The United States wanted to decrease the consumption of alcoholic beverages by Prohibition but it only increased the amount of bootleggers, liquor stores, and bathtub gin. One of the most abundant genres of music was jazz, back then the recordings were called race recordings. …show more content…
He was the player who made jazz so popular and made people fall in love with his playing styles.(1920 Music) Duke Ellington was another major figure in the world of jazz and music. He was a composer, pianist, …show more content…
Even in this time whites still couldn’t get over the thought that they were the superior race. It was only until the late 1920s that blacks and whites were starting to appear in music and entertainment together. Unfortunately, it was a time that the Klu Klux Klan was very apparent.(Prezi) The Klu Klux Klan was familiar in the 1860s and 1870s but it was the most popular in the 1920s. Most of the members of this Klan wore pointed hoods and masks. Many white families made sure to teach their children that it was okay to harass, intimidate, and inflict abusive violence on any African American. Millions of members, which were men, tortured and killed blacks to damage the freedoms that they had. The Friends of Negro Freedom (FNF) was trying the help African Americans get the same freedoms as everybody else. This became one of the leading organizations for the “National Association for the Advancement of Colored People” (NAACP). At first the programs plan was to increase wages and job opportunities for African Americans, which in the long run didn’t really work