The 1920's: A Brief Film Analysis

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1.) This picture is explaining how the KKK (Ku Klux Klan) treated people poorly, even from their own culture. During the beginning of the 1920’s, African Americans started moving more into the North to look for more job offers. Including many cities in Ohio, and when the KKK started moving more towards Ohio their popularity decreased. Leaving them angry at the citizens of Ohio, for not much caring (or appreciating their deeds).

2.) This pictures explains racism, mainly aimed towards white and black people I’m pretty sure. It tells how the white people used to mistreat black people in earlier times, just because they were from a different culture and had a different skin color. Most white people would completely disagree with interacting with
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However, the biggest strikes that occurred during the early 1920’s was due to workers protesting against business, demanding to make more money. Some soon experienced unemployment after the strikes arose, but soon after a few leaders pushed business owners into agreeing with the workers and increasing their work pay which caused the economy to come out of the slump. For a while at least, until the Great Crash of 1929. Businesses reached a peak in 1929 when electronics hit the market. Living wealthy was easy come by at that time, considering economy was of the slump it was previously in, workers were now paid more money, and new stuff was hitting the markets left and right leaving everyone wanting more. The economy was booming in the 1920’s, almost every house was to have had luxury items and/or something that helped their life at home become easier. But soon after everything was great for a while, everything started to go bad once again. With farmers still suffering from loans they took out to pay for farm equipment in the early 20’s, and return if the KKK (Ku Klux Klan). But that was only the beginning of a long crash, because entering the 30’s meant dealing with the Great Depression leaving the economy in yet another slump even bigger than the

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