1919-1920’sRemarkable years.
Race Riots of 1919
Reasons for discontent
• Jim Crow
• Returning WWI soldiers.
Chicago July 1919
• Rock throwing and drowning
• 38 killed/291 wounded.
The “Black Sox”
• 1919 World Series.
• Gambling.
• “Shoeless”Joe Jackson
and the boys.
The Red Scare - 1919• Communism
• Why did it frighten Americans?
• Deportation
• “Big Red Boat”/258
• Emma Goldman
• Attorney General A. Mitchell Palmer.
• Early 1920 over 3000 arrested. Some Congressmen wanted the death penalty for belonging the the Communist party.
• Limitation of free speech.
• Bombings/strikes/I.W.W./Trotsky/Lenin
The 19th Amendment - 1920
Odds and Ends of 1919
• Struggle for ratification of the Treaty of Versailles.
• Wilson travels 8200 miles, delivered 40 speeches in 14 states and suffers a “nervous exhaustion breakdown.”
1920• January 16th, 1920. The 18th Amendment
is passed.
• Volstead Act - Gave enforce
Tulsa Race Riots 1921
• A misunderstanding.
• 300 dead/800 wounded/34 city blocks in ruins.
The Invisible Empire
Public appeal
• Two million strong.• Lynchings• Political endeavors.