Age Of Intolerance Of The 1920s

The Jazz Age, Age of Intolerance, Age of Wonderful Nonsense, and the Roaring

Twenties is known to be in reference to the 1920s. Likewise, the Roaring Twenties contributed

to the “rebirth of the people”, as a scholar from the 1920s would put it, to which was associated

with the new found strength in the voices of the African-Americans. Consequently, the public

would popularly state, “The 1920s was the time of great prosperity,” however; there is a

substantially massive amount of evidence that show there was much dissatisfaction. For instance,

there were inflations, growth in organized crime, and many racial conflicts that took place. The

extravagance of this generation was recognized for the involvement of the Harlem Renaissance
During the Age of Intolerance, as many as five hundred thousand Italians

traveled to America in search of higher quality jobs and living. This migration managed to bring

about the Italian Mafia families, spreading within the country, about five in New York alone and

at least one in each country. In the time of the 1920s, because of the 14th amendment, there was

an abolishment of alcohol. Within this time frame, the Mafia began to make immeasurable

amounts of money by smuggling in alcohol from foreign countries; this considered them to be

bootleggers, and as well, was known for the bribing of police officers and public officials. The

magnitude of violence was so great; it started a war between New York’s two biggest crime

bosses, the war was called Castellammarese War and was specified to be a bloody power

struggle. Salvatore Maranzano came out the winner and boasted stating he was the bosses of all

bosses, in Italian. Later that same year, Salvatore was murdered by Lucky Luciano, the founder

of a central organization named Commission. Commission served as a kind of Mafia

organization appointed to organize other Mafia organizations. As time went on, police
They told the police of

what had happened, in which he ignored and did not report it, this sparked a feud within the

boys, later resulting in the first hint of a riot. Another incident would be of a riot, were there were

allegations of the African-Americans arming themselves, later, it was told to not be true, but with

the Whites not knowing and the tension raising the Whites began to bear arms. The riot ended

with a hundred to two hundred dead, mostly being of African-Americans. Within the 1920s, the

African-Americans weren’t the only people known to be racially oppressed. The Palmer Raids

was said to be started because of the bombing of Alexander Palmer’s, a prosecutors, house. The

Palmer Raids were known to be the raiding of immigrants, where they were forcibly deported to

their home countries. Because of fear of outside influences, this led to the restrictions on

immigration, but also worried people into The Red Scare due to Palmer’s extreme efforts to

deport immigrants.

The 1920s might have been perceived as a prosperous time era, but the truth to the