1919-1920’sRemarkable years.

Race Riots of 1919

Reasons for discontent

• Jim Crow

• Returning WWI soldiers.

Chicago July 1919

• Rock throwing and drowning

• 38 killed/291 wounded.

The “Black Sox”

• 1919 World Series.

• Gambling.

• “Shoeless”Joe Jackson

and the boys.

The Red Scare - 1919• Communism

• Why did it frighten Americans?

• Deportation

• “Big Red Boat”/258

• Emma Goldman

• Attorney General A. Mitchell Palmer.

• Early 1920 over 3000 arrested. Some Congressmen wanted the death penalty for belonging the the Communist party.

• Limitation of free speech.

• Bombings/strikes/I.W.W./Trotsky/Lenin

The 19th Amendment - 1920

Odds and Ends of 1919

• Struggle for ratification of the Treaty of Versailles.

• Wilson travels 8200 miles, delivered 40 speeches in 14 states and suffers a “nervous exhaustion breakdown.”

1920• January 16th, 1920. The 18th Amendment

is passed.

• Volstead Act - Gave enforce

Tulsa Race Riots 1921

• A misunderstanding.

• 300 dead/800 wounded/34 city blocks in ruins.

The Invisible Empire

Public appeal

• Two million strong.• Lynchings• Political endeavors.