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Racial Tensions
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1919- “Red Summer” Chicago race riot kills 38 people over swimming incident Washington DC also saw race riots
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Ku Klux Klan re- emerges in the 1920s in north and south
Carried out crimes against African-Americans, Catholics, Jews, immigrants and others Operated at night- beatings, killings Police step up law enforcement in 1927
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NAACP worked to protect rights to vote Marcus Garvey- UNIA
Economic power/ “Back to Africa” movement
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(next day)
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Herbert Hoover Republican President 1928-1932; California Quaker
(baseball story- Stanford) Mind for economics Worked his way up from mine worker to engineer to owner
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No salary! Cabinet member under Wilson and Harding Presidency marred by Depression (fault?)
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