How Were African Americans Treated In The 1920's

During the 1920’s, African Americans transposed to cities in the North in order to find better opportunities for work. Areas like Newark, Detroit ,and Chicago, which were mostly all white, presented glittering opportunities for African Americans to receive better jobs. Soon African Americans as well as immigrants, initiated their move to the city areas in the North, and pursued jobs that had better quality work conditions than they received in the South. However, when African Americans and new immigrants came to the North, they were not greeted with equal treatment and were presented with more escalated violent behavior from white Americans as they did in the South, and limitations on job opportunities. Even though African Americans and immigrants were presented more opportunities outside of the South, African Americans and immigrants were still discriminated against from racial tensions because of the Norths fear of African Americans and immigrants gaining equal

Soon after African Americans and immigrants were given jobs, they were moderately taken right from under them ,and given to white workers. In an excerpt from “Cotton Pickers Northern Countries”, it said, “But, although the Negro is warmly welcomed as a laborer, it is increasingly apparent that as a Negro he is unwelcome. . . .”. In the beginning before the climax of discrimination in the North, African Americans, and immigrants were wanted for jobs by factories, and other work fields that included hospitality, but as the excerpt says , it was an apparent ploy that was only used to legitimize the feelings of white people in the North toward African Americans , and immigrants live as second class citizens. It was also, a way for whites to create a division of African Americans and immigrants in white