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Americans like they were before the civil war. Then black codes were passed that restricted the freedom of African Americans and then they passed poll tax because they didn’t want African Americans to vote. Another event that happened was the Tulsa race riots that destroyed the town of Greenwood and killed many African Americans. Many people believe that the African American experience got better; however‚ I have a different opinion. They like to argue that African Americans can vote now‚ but they
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slaves headed North viewing it as a promise land for blacks. Even though the North didn’t have the segregation laws enforced there was still racism all over. There was a point called the Red Summer‚ time period filled with African American vs. White riots there were so many in one time period it has a special spot in history. People didn’t want to hear the truth about what was going on in any situation‚ they were afraid that if anything came out different from the story they actually wanted to hear
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Many returning white soldiers had to now compete for jobs against African Americans and foreign immigrants. This caused race tensions to rise dramatically throughout the country. In Oklahoma‚ African American residents of the Greenwood District in Tulsa were forcefully removed by white citizens and even the National Guard‚ while 35 blocks
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reasons were because of the destruction of houses‚ churches‚ schools‚ and more. The clan would put bombs in mailboxes‚ lynch and burn buildings down. Race riots were also lead through different areas. A race riot in Tulsa was one which whites stormed into black neighborhoods‚ burned‚ looted and kill whoever they found. Unlike the riot in Tulsa most happened in Northern
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Carolinas." Journal of Social History 36.1(2002) 220+. 2 Mar 2009 . Dye‚ R. Thomas. "Rosewood‚ Florida: The Destruction of an African American Community." The Historian 58.3(1996) 605+. 2 Mar 2009 . Gibson‚ Robert . "The Negro Holocaust: Lynching and Race Riots in the United States‚ 1880-1950." yale.edu. Yale-New Haven Teachers Institute. 26 Apr 2009 . Luders‚ Joseph E. "Civil Rights Success and the Politics of Racial Violence." Polity 37.1(2005) 108+. 2 Mar 2009 . Markovitz‚ Jonathan. Legacies of Lynching:
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brutalizing blacks occurred throughout the era but went unreported in the press. Numerous race riots erupted in the Jim Crow era‚ usually in towns and cities and almost always in defense of segregation and white supremacy. These riots engulfed the nation from Wilmington‚ South Carolina‚ to Houston‚ Texas; from East St. Louis and Chicago to Tulsa‚ Oklahoma‚ in the years from 1865 to 1955. The riots usually erupted in urban areas to which southern‚ rural blacks had recently migrated. In the
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the southern states. This is one of the many obstacle African Americans faced in the south‚ other then of course racisms finding a job‚ housing‚ public property’s‚ no colors allowed was everywhere. This was a very uneasy time with riots breaking out‚ such as the Tulsa riot. On to another topic that I mentioned earlier‚ the bootleggers; these were people who made or transported alcohol. Bootleggers were very big in the Appalachian mountain area. They would produce the moonshine (type of alcohol) in
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Continual Immurement The third decade of the twentieth century quickly evolved into a roaring lion of new ideas‚ customs‚ and inventions. Automobiles became a common form of transportation‚ leading to more paved roads and pathways. Billboards with colorful advertisements ran alongside crowded highways. Flappers‚ a fashion trend popular with young women‚ wore shorter clothes and practiced a breakaway from older‚ traditional values. Jazz music became popular in Speakeasies‚ bars that sold alcohol
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In Jim Crow race riots‚ “the police force… was invariably involved as a precipitating cause or a perpetuating factor in the riots… The police sided with the attackers” (The Nadir of Black America). Police failing to stop race riots sent a message that discrimination‚ including violent acts‚ was acceptable and offered almost no consequence to the perpetrator. This prejudiced
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