HARLEM RENAISSANCE PART 2

After WWI, throughout the country, mobs of White Americans were starting all out massacres of African Americans in areas where African Americans were successful economically.

While these riots lasted until the 1960s, the worst in history was the Tulsa Race "Riot".​

Race "Riots" = Massacres

The trial was deliberately staged in order to attract publicity to the case.

Scopes worked with the ACLU (American Civil Liberties Union) to incriminate himself deliberately to set up the trial.

Many saw this law as a real challenge to education being about​ free and open discussion of important ideas.

John Scopes vs. Fundamentalism

Hold fast to dreams  For if dreams die Life is a broken-winged bird That cannot fly.

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Hold fast to dreams For when dreams go Life is a barren field Frozen with snow.​

Dreams

Langston Hughes​

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Fats Waller was a well-known jazz musician and piano player.

In 1926, Waller was kidnapped. Four men forced him into a car at gunpoint and took him to the Hawthorne Inn, owned by Al Capone. Waller was ordered inside the building and told to play music and party until the party ended the next morning.​

The Best Story of the Jazz Age

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