Black People In The 1920s

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In the 1920’s many people were better off in America; due to entertainment, cinema, etc, however, not everyone was better off in the 1920’s including the ‘black race’, which was treated with apathy.

The lives of some people were changing in big ways positively in America because the development of the car industry sparked a growth in other industries too, for example, the cars that Henry ford made needed massive amount of materials( cycle of prosperity) because there was a myriad of it be made, so they had to buy materials from other companies, which meant that Henry Ford made some other industries better off: these might include tyre industries, because they sold many tyres which means that they were better off.In addition to that, from
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This suggests that the black people had opportunities to be better off and gain money. However, many parents and older people were extremely worried about the influences of Jazz on their children,as they believed that their culture values were threatened and that it was immoral.In the 1900, the population of the black 's was 12 million and most of them lived at the south,not only this but the black people were discriminated ,jobs often were hard to find ,housing was poor. In addition many white people acted brutally against them,especially the Ku Klax Klan: they were established by certain White people and they discriminated against , Roman Catholics,Mexican Jews and Blacks.Some of the Black 's migrated to the North and West where it was easier to get a job-in simple words most of the black people were not better off as much as the white people were and the life of the black Americans forms a special piece of the history of the 1920’s, that will be our story to share now. This is proven by source C, where it shows a picture of " a black person in the toilets using a different sink to wash his hands",because racism had increased a lot at 1920’s in America and in the toilet there was a poster that stated,"FOR COLORED ONLY".The purpose of this source was to encourage people that Black people weren 't supposed to be given equality and should be discriminated.In conclusion, I can clearly tell that most black people weren 't better off however, some of them benefitted from Jazz for

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