Intolerance in the USA in the 1920

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Intolerance in the USA in the 1920s

• During the 1920s in the USA there was an
  intolerance crisis. Racist groups or
  discriminating acts developed towards three
  specific groups
• Black People
• Indians (Native Americans)
• Immigrants

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Black People

• During the 1920 intolerance towards black
  people reached a high point and lots of racist
  communities or associations such as the KKK (Ku
  Klux Klan) started to appear. These
  organizations main aims were
• To kill as many black people as they could so
  that there would be less.
• To frighten black people so that they left
  America.
• To ruin black peoples life.
• The most popular of these organizations was the
  KKK. The KKK was a neo-nazi organization against
  black people that had estate structure and
  registered membership and by the end of the 20s
  had over 5 million members. The members of the
  KKK wore white costumes that looked like ghosts.
  They covered their face and body so that they
  wouldn't be recognized.
• During these years of absolute racism
  black people were totally discriminated against
  and their basic rights were denied. For example,
  black people weren't able to stay in places where
  white people were, it was forbidden to them to
  have a decent education or medical service, also
  black people were forced to live in swamps or in
  the woods because they were not safe in the
  cities. That was not the end the WHITES had a
  special name for black people, they called them
  negroes, niggers and nigga. Nowadays these
  words are forbidden by the law but back them it
  was very common to hear them.
• There were some places in the US
  where discrimination was not illegal but black
  people were safe there and were able to find
  jobs, for example, Washington but there were some
  states where black people dying was not news
  anymore and in these places the groups like the
  KKK murdered black people almost as a sport and
  they were never arrested, Georgia was one of
  those states and also Alabama, there an estimated
  amount that over 100,000 black civilians were
  murdered in these states just in the first 2
  years.

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KKK member doing the Nazi salute, wearing his
costume with the typical burning cross behind.
This is the KKKs symbol
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Native Americans

• During the 1920s there was a wave
  of discrimination towards Native Americans
  because the government wanted to adapt them to
  the new American society and also wanted their
  territory. This was noticeable in the statistics
  because the amount of Native Americans decreased
  from 1.500.000 to 250.000 in the 1920s. The
  surviving Natives were sent to reservations or
  refugee camps.
• In the Census of 1920 the
  government realized that most N.A. lived in
  extreme poverty, had the worse health and the
  lowest salaries. They were extremely
  discriminated against by the government because
  they gave permission to mining companies to take
  huge extensions of land and their kids were sent
  to special boarding schools. These schools
  objectives were to crush and destroy the native
  Americans beliefs, traditions and languages,
  basically, destroy their culture.
• During the 1920s one of the most
  significant successes if not the only one the
  Native Americans were granted the US citizenship,
  although, this didnt end at all the
  discrimination as they were given the name The
  Vanishing Americans.
• One of the tribes that fought the
  most against discrimination and one of the most
  popular was and still is the Cherokee.

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Here we can see a map with the different Indian
Tribes.
A typical Native American cacique or chief.
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Immigrants

• In the 1920s America was mostly formed by
  immigrants or descendant of immigrants (this is
  why USA was called the melting pot) and this
  was because after the war lots of people wanted
  to flee from poverty. People from Italy, Germany,
  G. Britain and France who had lost their
  belongings in the war and wanted to make some
  money travelled to USA. Not every immigrant
  wanted to stay in the USA forever, they wanted to
  make some money and return to their country.
• During the 20s there was a strong feeling called
  the Red Scare that was the fear of the government
  and citizens towards immigrants from the newly
  formed Communist Russia and their Bolshevik and
  Radical ideas. During the 20s some people went on
  strike when they confirmed this fear of
  Communist interference.
• In 1924 the government stepped up in the whole
  immigration topic and introduced a system that
  ensured the largest proportion of immigrants and
  limited the ammount of immigration from Europe.
  This system succeeded and by 1929 the immigration
  had decreased from over a 1.000.000 per year to
  150.000.

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Immigrants sleeping on a boat waiting to arrive
to America.
Italian immigrants arriving on a boat.