1920's

A detailed Summary of 1920's

Throughout the centuries it has always seemed as if America is always changing.

It is always on the rise to bigger and better things. Every era seems to get caught up with people

who are all for new revolutions and ideas, and then there are those who want to hold onto the

past and move along at a slower pace. The 1920's seemed to be a period in history where there

was a great deal of tension between those who were into new ideas and those who were into the

traditional American ideas. The Ku Klux Klan, the Harlem Renaissance and the Scopes trial

seemed to sum up both sides of this tension.

The Ku Klux Klan made a strong uprise during the 1920's. The new image of

the Ku Klux Klan was that it represented every good American citizen. The Klan was known to

be antiforeign, antiblack, anticatholic, and antijewish. At its

does not want to except the rapid speed which society is headed. It seems that there are always

Science classes became strictly prohibited. It was the general feeling of the public that theories

Another area that marked the growing success of city life was the Harlem

of evolution went strictly against the teachings of the bible. In 1925 though, a biology teacher

the African American community. He led a "Back to Africa" revolt which would ship African

keynote musicians who are well recognized to this day as the pioneers of Jazz. Their music

a little taste of the night life. Harlem's population consisted of 100,000 African Americans and it

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