The Depth of Racism in the 1920s

Racism in the 1920s
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My research paper will explore the depth of racism and the way it was presented in the news articles in the 1920s.
The sources that I will use are a collection of eighteen political cartoons that depicted racism in the 1920s that represented both white and black cartoonists approaches to the race problem (America in Class, 2012). The cartoons further interpreted the role of the citizens and the federal government in addressing the issue and how the black cartoonists perceived racial caricatures.
Another primary source used is the “W. E. B. Du Bois on the East St. Louis race riot of 1917” which was about the devastating race riot that erupted across the nation following the white resentment of blacks’ increasing employment in 1917 which left nine white and about two hundred black people dead (America in Class, 2012). The two sources are primary sources because they were created at the time under study, which was the 1920s and they are from a collection of primary sources in an organization known as "Am...