1930s

such as spirits. It also gave rise to organized crime, and a notorious black market embedded throughout major cities. The issues of the prohibition in the 1920’s, and throughout the 1930’s, can be related to the problems in the United States currently. The laws and regulations controlling alcohol during the prohibition led to a rise in crime. The same can be said today. Young adults are finding ways to buy alcohol illegally, whether it be from peers of a higher age, or willing guardians. This…

was once said by a man named Nelson Demille. In the 1930s, in the south's social injustice system of Jim Crow Laws impacted lives of not just blacks but whites as well. It caused many disputes and problems between the two races. To this day we still have racial tensions in the air but not with just these two groups. But as the years developed we have had great progress to create a better future and a better US. Being in the South during the 1930s influenced many things. Starting off with the…

Mockingbird displayed an accurate picture of the 1930s in the south. In this time period, African Americans weren’t really given fair trials because of prejudice views towards them. Robert Ewell, Mayella’s father, told Atticus Finch that he was a “nigger lover” because his was a black man’s attorney. Their clothing was what people of that time would wear in the south during the summertime. The characters acted how southern white Americans in the 1930s would act. They immediately believed that a…

the plight of German Jews between 1933-39. During the economic downturn of the 1930’s, countries around the world were turning increasingly inward, and were unwilling to welcome refugees of any sort. Jewish immigrants were at the bottom of the list of preferred immigrants prior to the Great Depression, and the few loopholes that allowed them to immigrate to Canada on special permits were systematically closed as the 1930’s progressed. In the final paragraph of the article the authors’ describe…

The 1920's and the 1930's were two completely different centuries during the 1920's we saw an influx of wealth being tossed around. People were investing and spending money faster than the speed of light. People began buying cars and larger houses and throwing parties, and just enjoying life. In the 1930's however it was as if someone stuck a hose on everyone and sucked the fun and the life out of everyone and everything. The Depression really sunk in and many family's were either hurt or…

by society every day by the color of your skin. African Americans commonly faced challenges including, hate and abuse from white people. Most white people were always brought up to stay away from the blacks and not to be involved with them. In the 1930’s, African American rights were negatively impacted by segregation through transportation, education, and voting rights. African Americans lacked transportation rights. “Before she reached her destination, she quietly set off a social…

If you were to develop this disorder before the 1930’s you would probably sadly spend the rest of your life in a psychiatric hospital. Shocking treatments were often attempted to help cure schizophrenia; some of these treatments included, surgical cutting of connections to the front of the brain, infusing…

Film noir had a lot of influences that affected the visual and thematic styles of films. History had an impact on these influences. The 1920’s German Expressionism had an early impact on film noir. Then in the 1920’s and 1930’s technology grew rapidly and the film industry was able to manipulate light and create a visual story. The events of the 30’s and 40’s drastically changed society and had the greatest impacted on the film industry. From 1929-1939 The Great Depression had hit America. When…

Presently, many schools across the United States have a delayed starting time, but this would probably not have been a possibility in the 1930s. Education during the Great Depression was less than mediocre, with property taxes that supported schools falling whenever the value of farm land decreased. Unfortunately, the value of farm land was on a down-hill slope (Davis). Consequently, many schools were forced to close due to lack of money, and the schools that stayed open struggled to pay their…

and never make a reference to them as being less then you. Most punishments would lead a man to prison or hanging (Pilgrim). In the picture there was a black man in raged cloths doing work at most white people would not do. This tells us that in the 1930’s black people were considered “equal” but in reality were not equal (V.).…