racial tensions only grew during the 1920s. Starting from the 1910s, a phenomenon had been occurring known as the Great Migration – the movement of African Americans from Southern cities to Northern ones as a result of extreme racism, the threat of lynching and the general aggression from whites. The African American population grew from 44 000 in 1920 to 234 000 in 1930 in Chicago, and Black Chicagoans gained access to city jobs, expanded their professional class and even won elective office in local
he still stuck to the Constitution when it clearly states, “All men are created equal”. Truman spoke out against lynching, became the first president to address representatives of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP), and took many of these cases to court. Truman’s advances to help African Americans, for instance, by putting an end to Southern lynching practices, changed the way society viewed blacks and changed the way that blacks viewed themselves. By allowing blacks
organized, grassroots style of protest would become the model for student protests across the country. For the first time young people began to become more political and demand a say in politics. The year also saw the introduction of a new car, the Ford Mustang. The Film 1964 explained the year in great detail. The film explains the biggest and controversial events of the year. Such as Berkeley, Freedom Summer and the missing men, the Feminine Mystique, and Civil Rights. Although the film covered
thought of arming African American soldiers for combat rather than assigning them to labor duties aroused the fear and ire of Southern politicians because of its threat to the racist status quo, particularly in the South. Vicious race riots and lynchings dotted the wartime and postwar American landscape, as white Americans stymied with violence any aspirations that African Americans had toward equality as a result of their participation in the “war for democracy.” In this context of the rampant