Prejudice And Racism In The 1920's

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The 1920’s brought a inflation of racism to the following communities: immigrants, Jews, Catholics, and African Americans. Derived from this hate, many African Americans gave acknowledgment to these issues and problems in the 1920’s. In accumulation of the re-emergence of the Ku Klux Klan and the harsh laws of Jim Crow, increased tensions between the African American and white communities in the United States. Although the Ku Klux Klan disassembled in the 1870’s, the Klan re-emerged in 1915, and the Ku Klux Klan peaked in the 20’s. By 1924, “it reportedly had 4 million members in 4,000 chapters across the United States” (Alex LaFosta, Racism in the 1920s & 1930s). William J. Simmons, a methodist preacher, was the leader of the Klu Klux Klan …show more content…
These laws separated the races and the white race was favored more. The conditions of the water fountains, eating areas in restaurants, bathrooms, and bus seats were poor but the white’s were in good conditions. Referring back to the increase of migration to the North, all these issues stated previously led to the beginning of the Harlem Renaissance. The cause of the Harlem Renaissance was due to such poor conditions in the South that millions African Americans started to migrate to the north for a better life and new opportunities were available to them. In W.E.B. Du Bois, The Souls of the Black Folk, he wrote about the New Negro movement, The Harlem Renaissance in awe of its philosophical effect on the African American community, “The history of the American Negro is the history of this strife, -- this longing to attain self-conscious manhood, to merge his double self into a better and truer self. In this merging he wishes neither of the older selves to be