The Inventions Of The 1920's

The roaring twenties was a time full of the extragrant free moving culture. During this point in time there was a huge impactful social and political change. The 20’s was an age for everything new and exciting. There were many inventions during this time including: automobiles, the airplane, sliced bread, the assembly line, and the television. With the new inventions came new actions, dancing, and dressing. Many traditional standards were rejected. There was a break out of organized crime, and citizens ignored the prohibition on alcohol. Women started to gain more rights and disregarded “standards” that were set for them. During this time life was on the edge. The 1920’s was a time of innovation, and this revolutionary time period caused
Surprisingly, the uprising of African-Americans were sparked by a movement against blacks. The Klu Klux Klan is an organization created in 1865 shortly after World War I , in the state of Tennessee with a mutual idea based on white supremacy, white nationalism, anti-immigration, nordicism, and anti-catholicism. This group would assault and murder those whom they disliked or whoever was outside of their race. They considered their actions as purification of the nation.

The Klu Klux Klan did die down, but the events of the Klan began to spark when African Americans started to discover that there wasn’t any limitations to their new found freedom. In the south, Jim Crow laws was established. This caused segregation and the “separate but equal” laws. Also the legislation in the South prevented African American males from voting, violating the fifth-tenth amendment. Once the Black Codes were established, which restricted African Americans their freedom and forced them to work in a economy based on low wages and debt, the Klu Klux Klan resurged. The organization restarted with nearly four to five million members. All with the same idea of re- establishing white supremacy. They took violent measures and scare tactics to prevent to lost of control over African
Reportedly, during this time more than six million African-American traveled North. The event of African-Americans relocating North was known as the Great Migration, Which took place between 1916 to 1970. This caused a huge impact on urban life and African-Americans economic growth as a whole.

The factory wage was three times more than working on land in the South. Black owned newspapers such as, Chicago Defender had advertisements displaying the opportunities available . African-Americans migrated from the South by train, boat, or bus. Northern cities black population grew dramatically. New York’s percentage grew by sixty-six percent. Chicago’s percentage grew by one hundred and forty-eight percent. Philadelphia by five-hundred percent and Detroit by six-hundred and eleven percent.

As the population of African Americans grew an enlightenment struck among the black community. With the newly felt freedom African Americans began to use the opportunities to advance their