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Racism In The 1920s

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The 1920s was a decade of changes, and clashes in American history. There was many contradictions in values and ways. My topic of the 1920s is race. Race represents a clash of values in the 20s because there was racial improvement and flourishing for blacks in the north like Harlem, but in the south blacks were being lynched and compelled by jim crow laws In the south there was unequal treatment against whites and blacks, were blacks were considered “inferior” to whites and some even claimed that the negro can only survive through submission. Blacks and whites were segregated and in the case of Plessy vs Ferguson the supreme court said if there equal accommodations then segregation is okay, not “discriminatory”, segregation did not promote
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