1920's Dbq

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The 1920’s was frightening and exciting era. It was the first time more people lived in cities than on farms. It was era where the older generation rebelled against the new, a time where social and political changes took place, and an age in when the economy was thriving. “The Uncertainties of 1919 were over. America was going on the greatest, gaudiest spree in history.” The Roaring Twenties was about the Charleston, Lindy Hop, and the Breakaway dances, Prohibition,Women’s rights, the Harlem Renaissance, limitation of Immigrants, and the greatest uprising of the KKK. These are what made the 1920’s unique. Young women were now wearing short skirts, smoking cigarettes, bobbing their hair up, and doing other “risky” and “different” things…show more content…
Most whites believed that they were superior to blacks and that they shouldn’t have to share anything with them, so in the late 1890’s Jim Crow laws were enacted in the south,giving blacks and whites separate facilities. In the Plessy vs Ferguson case Homer Plessy, who was one-eighth African American, was sitting in the white section of the bus. When asked to move to the black section by a white, he refused. He was taken to court and found guilty of violating the Jim Crow Laws. Homer Plessy would not give up, he appealed the verdict saying the law violated the fourteenth amendment. But it was soon overruled stating that if railroad cars offer equal accommodations then segregation is not discriminatory. The Blacks and Whites accommodations are separate but equal. As almost all of the whites believed in the separate but equal accommodations/facilities, this was not the case for African Americans. Their facilities were not equal, they were far from equal. Blacks got the ripped up textbooks, the gross bathrooms, the gross water fountains, and, the worst seats on the bus, they got the worst while the whites got the best. The Jim Crows laws not only had to do with accommodations/facilities, but also forced the blacks to follow norms that allowed whites to treat them with no respect. For example, if a black person rode in a car driven by a white person, the black person sat in the back seat, or the back of a truck. Whites believed Blacks were second class Citizens, making Jim Crow laws necessary to essure African Americans were treated like second class citizens, a way Blacks didnt feel that they should be

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