Red Summer
The Red Scare is about the period in the history of the United States immediately following WWI. The dates are approximately from the Armistice in November of 1918 to the collapse of hyperinflation in 1920. Within these two dates the country witnessed--not so much in rapid succession as concurrently--a deadly flu epidemic, a strike wave of unparallel proportions, harsh suppression in some cases of those strikes, race riots, hyper-inflation, mass round-ups and deportations of foreign born citizens, expulsion of duely-elected officials from various offices in government, an incapacitated president, espionage laws, sedition laws and, of course, the advent of Prohibition and women's suffrage.1919 was characterized by over 3300 strikes and labor violence suddenly erupted in this time. After the war workers had hoped for a better life. The war had brought many industrial employees higher pay, shorter hours, and better working conditions. Many American workers attacked the union activity, in addition inflation was rapidly rising and soon the cost of living was 77 percent highe
Political violence appeared in the form of bombings. One of the world's worst race riots occurred in Chicago. It all started when a young teenager named Eugene Williams swam in an area located for whites only and was killed by a blow to the head from a rock. After he had drowned from this the people who were accused of this crime were not arrested and this caused major tension, that resulted in five days of rioting in which 33 blacks and 15 whites died. More discretion arose as blacks were competing with whites for jobs. During the war, the war had brought over many blacks in the Chicago area. Thus, blacks and whites had also competed for housing as well as jobs. So there was always competition from the blacks to the whites. This caused all sorts of race related problems and race relations between the two arose. The 1919 World Series resulted in the most famous scandal in baseball history. Eight players from the Chicago White Sox, later nicknamed the Black Sox were accused of throwing the series against the Cincinnati Reds. Details of the scandal and the extent to which each man was in
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