The Experience of African Americans in the 1920s
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- The Experience of African Americans in the 1920s
- Racial Tensions
- 61 lynched in 1921. Most occasions police made no effort to stop it
- NAACP campaigned to improve the rights of African Americans
- Free, but not equal
- Jim Crow Laws- Segregation between African Americans and white people in many aspects of everyday life such as restaurants and public toilets. Ways were also found to stop them voting such as high taxers (which many could not afford)
- Slavery was abolished in 1865 but African-Americans were still not equal and faced racial prejudice.
- Leaving the South
- 2 million African-Americans left the south to move to the North as there were more jobs although the pay was low it was better than in the south. Some factories were 'whites-only'
- Black Reinaissance
- Although poverty and racism was common in northern cities some African-American communities flourished such as Harlem famous for it's art, literature and jazz music.
- Racial Tensions
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