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Cultural Conflicts13.3
Bootleggers, Preachers, and the Klan in the 1920’s
Prohibition
• Outlawed the manufacture, transportation, and sale of intoxicating liquors.
• People still wanted liquor
Bootleggers
• Anyone that could move booze could get rich.
• Bootleggers modified their cars to be faster than the police.
• Many would get together and race
• This tradition of racing modified “stock” factory cars became….
Rum Runners
• Captain William S. McCoy
• aka "The Real McCoy"
• Trafficked illegal liquor from Canada and the Caribbean up and down the U.S. Coastline
“Spider Murphy played the tenor saxophone,
Little Joe was blowin on the slide trombone,
The drummer boy from Illinois went crash, boom, bang,
The whole rhythm section was the Purple Gang,
Lets rock, everybody, lets rock,
Everybody in the whole cell block
Was dancin’ to the jailhouse rock.”
The Purple Gang Detroit Michigan
You don’t steal from the Purple Gang…
Speakeasies• Clubs that served alcohol illegally.• These were the “hot spots” of the day.
Organized Crime
• Since booze was illegal..– Controlled by criminals– Made criminals rich
and powerful
• Led to other activities– Prostitution, gambling,
racketeering
Prohibition leads to the rise of
Organized Crime
Al Capone
• Young• Ruthless (murdered
his way to the top)• Bought Policemen,
Judges, Congressman
• $60 million dollar a year organization ($850 million today)
Capone cont.
• Bought judges; was never convicted
• Finally convicted on tax evasion charges
Fundamentalism
• Reaction to “New Morality”
• Literal interpretation of the Bible.
• Continues to grow in strength.
• Passed Anti-Evolution Legislation
Reverend Billy Sunday
Scopes Trial
• Teacher challenges Anti-Evolution laws
• Free Speech vs. Fundamentalism
• Trial becomes HUGE.
Clarence Darrow and William Jennings Bryan
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YiW0GOOyvro
Fundamentalists win the trial, but lose credibility because they appear backward
1919 Race Riots
• Tension over jobs and housing
• Tensions between urban whites and blacks led to the “Red Summer”
• Blacks always suffered the harsher ends of punishment
Revival of the Klan
• Spread to the North• 4 Million Members• Biggest state was Indiana• Had several marches on
Washington DC• Targeted Blacks, Jews
Catholics and Immigrants
Rise of the NAACP• Failed Anti-Lynching Legislation• Tried fighting discrimination through the courts
The Garvey Movement
• Marcus Garvey• Jamaican Immigrant• Businessman• Promoted black pride,
separation of the races, and a return to Africa
• Created the largest Pan-African Movement in History
• Controversial figure within the Black Community
• Met with Klan Leaders
• Movement failed, but inspired others