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.