In class we watched a video on the Harlem Renaissance. Renaissance means new birth and at that time most of the blacks moved to the north. The Harlem population was full of African-Americans and Native. This is when music and literature started to increase within the black population.…
The Harlem Renaissance was a literary, artistic, and intellectual movement that kindled a new black cultural identity, spanning the 1920s and to the mid-1930s. While reading the article “Black Renaissance: A Brief History of the Concept” I learned that the Harlem Renaissance was once a debatable topic. Ernest J. Mitchell wrote the article, explaining how the term “Harlem Renaissance” did not originate in the era that it claims to describe. The movement “Harlem Renaissance” did not appear in print before 1940 and it only gained widespread appeal in the 1960s. During the four preceding decades, writers had mostly referred to it as “Negro Renaissance.”…
The Prohibition era began with the ratification of the 18th Amendment. The 18th Amendment banned the manufacturing, transportation, and sale of all intoxicating liquors. It is important to note that the 18th Amendment only banned the manufacturing, sale, and transport of liquor while it did not ban the possession or consumption. This loophole made it possible for a small percentage to produce liquor before the amendment was ratified and they could serve it throughout the Prohibition era legally. The 18th Amendment proved to be impossible to fully enforce. During this era the illegal production and sale of liquor increase. Speakeasies which were illegal secret establishments where people would come to drink liquor were also on the rise. Organized crime and racketeering dominated in many areas, especially urban areas such as Chicago.…
Making liquor, however, was forbidden. Where did the speakeasies get alcohol? Certain "entrepreneurs" were eager to step into the gap. Organized crime was already a factor in large cities. Local thugs were making money with saloons, brothels, and gambling halls. Prohibition opened whole new vistas for those willing to break the law. The market for illegal liquor was huge. Supplying it became a big business. Neighborhood bosses hired mobs of underlings. The crime…
Due to the new world before them, the twenties women denied the traditions of the nineteenth century. They also gained independence and fought for the same freedoms men had. This is when the woman was transformed. As a result of the Jazz Age, women needed to be able to move freely. The women of the twenties also strived to look “manly.” In order to look more like men, they tried to flatten their breasts by tightly wrapping them with strips of cloth. Their clothes were straight and loose as possible, to hide their curves. They cut off their hair and dyed it jet black. The flapper was born. Flappers' behavior was outlandish at the time and redefined women's roles. The 1920 women were stereotyped as irresponsible. They were seductive, very rebellious, and wild. Teenagers spent less and less time with their families, and more time disgracing them. With the new society influencing them, women did what they what, when they wanted to. They drank, smoke, and refused to do what was expected of them. With World War I ending, the world around was changing rapidly. With the 1920s arriving multiple changes occurred in the family life. Women were expected to cook, clean and care for their growing families. But, due to birth-control info, birthrates decreased. Also, with bread that is previously sliced, ready to wear clothes in stores, canned food, and…
The Harlem Renaissance took place towards the end of World War I and The mid 1930s. It was a rebirth for African americans, allowing them to open up and to be a person. Not everyone agreed with this, it was actually illegal for a white and black person to communicate and to be in the same building. In Harlem, everyone was welcome, everywhere. African Americans were pretty happy about that, although it was hard to get a job, it wasn’t impossible. Black people were able to express themselves socially, through music, and literature.…
It was written to prohibited Alcohol and drugs coming in the USA and being sold there. Prohibition was a time period in the USA where manufacture, sale, and transportation of liquor was made illegal. It was a time where it was characterized by speakeasies, glamor, and gangsters and period of time in which even the average citizen broke the law. After the American Revolution drinking Alcohol was on the rise. To have a control over this problem societies were organized as a part of a new temperance movement which was used to dissuade people from becoming intoxicated. “The temperance movement blamed alcohol for many of society’s ill, especially crime and murder” saloons were a social men who lived in the untamed west (who were viewed by many, especially women) members of the Temperance movement urged to stop husbands from spending the family income on alcohol and to prevent fights in the workplace by those who get drunk during their lunch…
On to another topic that I mentioned earlier, the bootleggers; these were people who made or transported alcohol. Bootleggers were very big in the Appalachian mountain area. They would produce the moonshine (type of alcohol) in the woods of the mountains and run it to bigger cities to go straight to speakeasys (an undercover bar that sold alcohol) or to get distrusted in other places around the U.S.…
The Harlem Renaissance; a revolutionary outburst of creative activity among African-Americans occurred in all fields of art between 1920-1930. It was a cultural and psychological turning point, an era in which black people were perceived as having finally liberated themselves from a past filled with self-doubt. It was originally called “The New Negro Movement”. It was centered in the Harlem district of New York City, but expanded across the western world. Harlem attracted a successful and stylish black middle class from which sprang an extraordinary artistic center. Like the avant-garde movements in Europe, it embraced all the art forms, including art, literature, music, dance, film, theatre and cabaret. Harlem nightlife, with its dance halls and jazz bands, featured prominently in the work of these artists. It was ore than a literary movement and more than a social revolt against racism; the Harlem Renaissance elevated the unique culture of African-Americans and redefined the African-American expression.…
The Harlem Renaissance exploded in a New York community during 1918 and 1937; some refer to as The New Negro Movement. It was the time when Black Americans were passionate about shedding their Jim Crowe past. Black Americans wanted a new society for themselves that were viewed as talented and intelligent. The Harlem Renaissance enhanced the appreciation of Negro society showing that the black man was more than just an asset to be claimed, rather a talent to be admired.…
The Harlem Renaissance was a social,cultural, and artistic explosion that took place in Harlem, New York, stretching through the 1920s. During that time it was known as the “New Negro Movement”. One of the bigger aspects of this cultural explosion was that many Negroes were able to get better jobs and school chances. Making The Harlem Renaissance one of the biggest cultural events of the decade.…
Saloons were replaced by speakeasies, alcohol was smuggled across state lines, and “moonshine” or “bathtub gin” was produced illegally in the homes of countless citizens. In…
The Prohibition caused many gangs to involve in illegal trades, like the article “The St. Valentine’s Day Massacre in Chicago” states, “Capone arranged for someone to call moron and tell him that a special shipment of hijacked whiskey was going to be delivered to one of Moron’s garages on the North side”(“The…
The first important criminal industry of the 1920's was bootlegging. Bootlegging consisted in illegally supplying or producing liquor. When the prohibition was enforced during the winter of 1920, its original goal was to "lower crime and corruption, reduce social problems, lower taxes needed to support prisons and poorhouses, and improve health and hygiene in America" (www.1920-30.com). Instead, it lead to an increasingly growing demand of the now illicit substance, which was satisfied by bootleggers, who illegally supplied alcohol for a very high price. Most were ready to pay more for a drink; they didn’t think obtaining and drinking alcohol would be immoral because it was legal just a few years ago. Al Capone was the most famous smuggler and bootlegger of the 1920's, as he was the owner of several illegal bars which allowed him to "[brew, distil and distribute] beer and liquor" (www.fbi.gov). People started to smuggle alcohol into the United States from across seas or from their northern neighbour, Canada. Those who couldn't afford Canadian alcohol eventually started producing their own liquor and became bootleggers as well; they were wiling to sell their alcohol to anyone who had the money to pay for it. This resulted in an extremely strong liquor called Moonshine, which often contained impurities, sometimes even toxins that could lead to the death of the buyer. The development of bootlegging had numerous consequences on the populations; for instance, alcoholism increased, the number of illegal bars and saloons sky-rocketed, and other crimes such as bank robbing were overlooked…
Yet another source of tension was Prohibition. Alcohol consumption and manufacture had been outlawed in 1919 in the Eighteenth Amendment and the Volstead Act. This by no means meant that America was a dry country. Young people could still find alcohol in shadowy "speakeasy" clubs. There bootleg alcohol would be sold to…