Clash of Cultures Homepage. 1920s-Webquest. Zora Neale Hurston - Home. Scopes Trial Home Page - UMKC School of Law. Great War & Jazz Age (1914-1928) 1920's. 1920's. Harlem gangs from the 1920s and 1930s — A Brief History. BY Walter A. Bell Very little is known about organized black gangs that operated in , during the Prohibition and Depression years. Almost all organized crime in during that time was run by Italian, Jewish, and Irish gangsters.
A few loosely run black crime factions did exist and primarily concentrated on policy and lottery gambling, prostitution and drugs. These are the true stories of a time, a place and a people who lived during one of our countrys darkest and most socially flamboyant periods. William Bojangles Robinson s troops were finally back from the war to end all wars. S returning black soldiers were sure they now would be treated as equals, having bravely proved their worth by serving honorably overseas. Lenox Avenue in Harlem, 1927 The housing situation grew worse. Times were hard for black people, not only in but throughout the nation. Original Dance Music of 1920's & 1930's - Various Artists. HowStuffWorks "Important American Figures in the 1920s and 1930s" The United States Turns Inward: the 1920s and 1930s. After its participation in the conflagration then known as the Great War, the American nation was ready to turn inward and concentrate on domestic affairs (a "return to normalcy," as 1920 presidential candidate Warren Harding called it).
Private concerns preoccupied most Americans during the 1920s until the Great Depression of the next decade, when increasing numbers turned, in their collective misfortune, to government for solutions to economic problems that challenged the very basis of U.S. capitalistic society. The 1920s: Decade of Optimism. By the 1920s innovative forces thrusting into American life were creating a new way of living. The automobile and the hard-surfaced road produced mobility and a blurring of the traditional rural-urban split. The radio and motion pictures inaugurated a national culture, one built on new, urban values. Traditional WASP (white, Anglo-Saxon Protestant) America fought the new ways. The 1930s: Decade of Depression. Recovery was Roosevelt's first task. 1920s Timeline - History Timeline of the 1920s.
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