American History / 1920Ð²Ð‚â„¢S


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One event that impacted the 1920Ð²Ð‚â„¢s was the upcoming movement in music, jazz. Equivalent to rock and roll in the 50Ð²Ð‚â„¢s and 60Ð²Ð‚â„¢s, and todayÐ²Ð‚â„¢s hip hop era, was said to have caused a lot of issues because of its African American background. One issue was young white kids would go out to Jazz Clubs and dance to jazz performed by black musicians. These was frowned upon by the older white society, by just the thought of their children running off into the night listening to Ð²Ð‚Ñšjungle musicÐ²Ð‚Ñœ, drinking bootleg liquor, mingling with large groups of blacks, and possibly ending the night with a little back-seat action, made them frantic.

The significance of Document 3 was it told about George F. Babbitt going out and speaking to immigrant workmen. Babbitt was district leader on floral heights, but his district was sore and he longed for stouter battle his convention paper had given him the beginning of a reputation for oratory so the republican democratic central committee sent him to the seventeenth ward and south Zenith to address a small audience of workman and clerks and wives uneasy with their new voters he a acquired fame for a week (Breen Document 3). People felt motivated and uplifted from BabbittÐ²Ð‚â„¢s words.

In Document 7 Hughes talks of a younger kid who wants to be a poet, a white poet. Only thing is that he is black, and stays with a middle class family, but his mom tells him donÐ²Ð‚â„¢t be like niggers when children are bad and a frequent quote from the father Ð²Ð‚Ñšlook well a white man does things and so the word white comes to be unconsciously a symbol of all virtues (Breen Document 7). This is mainly destroys the kids mind state to be someone he is not, he will ever learn to trust or the truth about his own culture. Hughes speaks about the upper class Negros and how they have good jobs and the father was dark and his wife light, but not white but reminds him of one. He tells how they base their living after white people. He states that when your an artist you put your life and traditions and your individuality in it. Jazz have an effect of black people, but jazz is one of the most inheritable expressions of Negro life in America (Breen Document 7). Yet the lady is ashamed to say that her race created it and she does not like me to write about it the old subconscious Ð²Ð‚Ñšwhite is betterÐ²Ð‚Ñœ run through her mind (Breen Document 7). It is the duty of the younger Negro artist to change through the race of his art the old whispering Ð²Ð‚ÑšI want to be whiteÐ²Ð‚Ñœ, hidden in the aspirations of his people to why should I want to be white? I am Negro and I am beautiful (Breen Document 7).

Document 6 is mostly a weep for assist. The two first letters explains how two black people are pleading for a job opportunity in a northern state when they are in the south and living conditions are bad. They felt that if they are given the opportunity, they would have not messed it up and would have worked the hardest. They had they specific profession but they were wiling to take whatever they could. The second was a thank you letter from a person whom received a job in Philadelphia, telling all their progress and how the job is going and that all was well.

Document 2 what we want in American declared warren Harding in 1920 is less government in business and more business in government. Puritan explains why business will lead to the salvation of America. What is the finest game business the soundest science business the trust art business the fullest education? Business the fairest opportunity business the cleanest philanthropy business the sanest religion is business (Breen Document 2).

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