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 …show more content…
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 …show more content…
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
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 …show more content…
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 …show more content…
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