Week 10 Reflection: A Great Depression

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Hooverville in The Great Depression

As I was reading this week reflection I started to notice how in the early 1920s, the United States was booming and as the 1920s ended on it started to fluctuate. I know that the great depression had started because of stock market crashing after the prices of price stock fell (black Tuesday). While people were taking out their money in the bank, the bank felled and families couldn’t get to their life savings. The stock market crash went by so fast and had made a drastic decrease within families financial stability’s. While reading the circumstances that Americans had to go through really made me appreciate how there is no more great depression. Families had to sleep in caves, and sewer pipes. Men had lost self-respect and started to become alcoholics and more abusive because they couldn’t hold down the house financially. In the 1930s alcoholism was a major issue same with abuse so now I understand how the increase in these two things happened during this time period. During this great depression, big businesses that were once booming were closing up, families were staving to death, and Hooverville’s started to be created. One thing I can say that the great depression help out with was the uniting of families, I liked how families stuck together and the divorce rates had declined. 

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Mexican Americans during the great depression 

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An African American women during the great depression

African Americans and Mexican Americans struggled the most during the great depression, African Americans (already having to fight for equal rights and pay) lost a lot within their own black communities. Big groups of families had to come together in live in small apartments. Mexican also lost a lot. Mexican Americans lost jobs, relief, and rights to be treated like a citizen in this country.

President Herbert Hoover was harshly ridiculed because of his non involvement with trying to help the great depression. He argued that capitalism was the reason, I can see how capitalism could be the reason because since not a lot of things were shared, that created a scarcity within America. Hoover's argument ties along with how we need to work together to gain success (W.EB. Du Bois rise to success theory). When Franklin D Roosevelt made the New Deal, containing relief, reform, and recovery, it benefited many people in higher positions. Black people and women were treated unfairly during this new deal act. Black people were excluded from many relief programs and women were still being looked at as traditional stay at home moms. It is crazy how war ended the great depression since manufacture went up. I am glad the great depression ended and I really do pray that it won’t happen again.

Week 9 Rflection: 1920s, The Change of Everything

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While learning about the modern and conservative 1920s I tend to notice that this was a time of change for all people, regardless of race and gender. Mass productions of automobiles, electricity, processed foods, etc. had changed the way Americans lived. To answer the question on how progressive and modern were the 1920s in the United States, I feel like the 1920s were super progressive and modern considering how we still use and invest in the same inventions today. Marketing adds are till used today and are more influential as well. The pollution created by the mass production of cars and other electric products, as well as the chemicals in put into food, is still a growing factor because of all the non-organic creations that are being made. Consumerism created freedom for the sellers, consumerism is basically a marketing strategy for customers to buy more of the products. Consumerism is best used when it comes to mass production and good advertising. Customers would benefit but to a certain extinct were the sellers will benefit fully because of the money  being made. Advertising in the 1920s help consumerism but didn’t really create freedom, especially for women. Advertisements created a false perception on who you should be rather than how a normal human is. Women were affected by this because they tried to change themselves for a untrue appearance.

 The 1920s were a little conservative when it came to traditional teachings of gender, race, and age but the 20s did change tradition when it came to a little more freedom for women and opportunities for African-Americans. 

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A depiction of middle to high class white women in the 1920s. 

Middle and high class white women were treated much better than working class women. They had more freedom and voting rights. Working class women feared that this would limit “protective legislation” and they won’t get paid properly (minimum wages and maximum hours). To answer the question on if women were liberated, black women were still discriminated against and treated unequal which caused only white middle to high class women to only be liberated. 

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A picture of two black men after a hanging during the Rosewood Massacre.

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This Picture is from the Tulsa "Black Wall Street" Massacre, A black boy holding a lifeless baby.

The corrupt treatment of African Americans was still ongoing. Reading the Tulsa “black wall street,” and the Rosewood, Florida Massacres, I felt sorry for the black businesses that were booming, the houses that were destroyed, and the black people that were killed, (little kids to elderly people) especially the story about the pregnant women that was killed. I tend to notice that when it came to massacres and hangings, the reasoning for them burning down houses and killing a mass number of people was because of a “accused assault against a white women.” During WWI black soldiers died more than white soldiers and even after WWI blacks soldiers were treated unfairly. Lynching’s and anti black riots took place. It seems to me that the only up lifters for African-Americans, at this time, were other African-Americans. Marcus Garvey help create self-love within the black communities with skin color, the black community, and religion. The Harlem renaissance was a major celebration for black history, it was a time were blacks uplifted each other and showed their talents and knowledge to the world.

Americans had made progress toward the American dream when it came to middle to high class Americans. These Americans had the right to ignore struggle because they were given a much better advantage than any other person in the United States. All the events that took place during the modern and conservative 1920s, created more privilege for white people.

Week 7 Reflection: The Freedom Of a Woman

               

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This picture shows a women going to vote while the husband is the one taking care of the kids and house.

              This week’s teaching on the Progressive era and Women’s Suffrage really informed me on what took place during the early 20^th century. Since times was changing and much progress was made to better American society, everyone that wasn’t equal wanted a push for equal rights. African Americans were still treated unfairly, although black men had the right to vote. Women wanted the right to vote, although America was changing, they were still being treated unfairly. Women wanted to changed laws that divided them from American men, they wanted better working conditions, more decisions when it came to marriage, less abuse from their husband, their right to control what to do with their pregnancy, and just to be treated fairly as a whole. All of these things were worth fighting for, the protests and strikes that women did to be heard help them change laws and get the things they were fighting for. Although many ended up in jail, they kept their movement going while still  inside their cell by doing hunger strikes. The right for women to vote really changed the way things were when it came to employment, child care, and other things that was a necessity to women.  

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This picture shows a white and black women fighting for the same thing but the bottom says "vote for white women," which helps show the discrimination of the black women. 

                After reading the PDFs, PowerPoint, and watching the clip from the move, I had noticed a major downfall within the NAWSA and other women movements. This downfall was the fact that African-American women were treated unfairly. African American women had joined these movements so they won't be be left behind but as I learned from history and in my own personal experience, they were left behind. It is bad enough that black women endured racism in a group that was suppose to uplift women as a whole. The movement of African American women seemed separated from the movement of American Women. America women  were fighting for Middle class to skill working women. They did not really care about the fight for black women suffrage. This made me realize how blacks were seen more as non-humane. Although this weeks learning showed the strength and determinism of women when fighting for their rights, it also disappoints me as a black female of how African Americans were overlooked because of the color of our skin. Knowing these facts, I tend to look at the women suffrage groups  as being a group of irony because of them being discriminatory within their fight for equal rights.