Similarities Of Life And Music In The 1920's
The 1920’s are a time filled with American culture and a mix of everything new technologies, different cultural views and newly broken barriers. Jazz music was also brought into the lives of white civilians bringing a whole new culture mix to areas otherwise recognized as segregated. These new styles of life and music brought together two different communities yet also set problems for both. Seen as a time of shine and beauty not all was black and white and with the aid of colored writers and poets we get a clearer insight into what their day to day lives consisted of.
The 1920s began with the extension of voting rights to women and prohibition of the sale of alcoholic beverages, rode a rising tide of prosperity, and ended with the 1929 stock market crash. This was the jazz age, named by Fitzgerald and chronicled in his book. It was also the period of the Harlem …show more content…
It was the musical revue that gave a great send off to the negro style in Manhattan. This was all going on before the crash of 1929, the crash that sent all of Americas populations downwards to a state of destruction. “20’s was not so gay and sparkling beneath the surface as it looked.”(Hughes 1127). The black renaissance was made to be looked as a dazzling time filled with laughter and joy. In reality it was further than that.
In 1935 a riot occurred in the Manhattan neighborhood of Harlem on march 19-20, 1935. It sparked up with a 16-year-old black Puerto Rican who was caught stealing a penknife from a store. The people were infuriated from the police brutality in the form the boy was handled that more than 10,000 people took to the streets in protest later breaking out into riots and destruction of prosperity. The NAACP was also created to help with the equality rights in the united states. They gained more than 90,000 members in total helping towards the fight for equal
The 1920s began with the extension of voting rights to women and prohibition of the sale of alcoholic beverages, rode a rising tide of prosperity, and ended with the 1929 stock market crash. This was the jazz age, named by Fitzgerald and chronicled in his book. It was also the period of the Harlem …show more content…
It was the musical revue that gave a great send off to the negro style in Manhattan. This was all going on before the crash of 1929, the crash that sent all of Americas populations downwards to a state of destruction. “20’s was not so gay and sparkling beneath the surface as it looked.”(Hughes 1127). The black renaissance was made to be looked as a dazzling time filled with laughter and joy. In reality it was further than that.
In 1935 a riot occurred in the Manhattan neighborhood of Harlem on march 19-20, 1935. It sparked up with a 16-year-old black Puerto Rican who was caught stealing a penknife from a store. The people were infuriated from the police brutality in the form the boy was handled that more than 10,000 people took to the streets in protest later breaking out into riots and destruction of prosperity. The NAACP was also created to help with the equality rights in the united states. They gained more than 90,000 members in total helping towards the fight for equal