Race Relations

Blog posts about events or people associated with the interactions between different racial groups.

  • Revisiting the History of the 1920s: An Analysis of Historiographical Articles

    Summaries In 2007, David J. Goldberg, a white professor of history at Cleveland State University,  provided an overview of the evolving way in which historians have analyzed the 1920s in…

  • Bessie Coleman, Pluralism, and being Black During the 1920s

              Growing up as part Native American and part African-American in the early 20th century, Bessie Coleman was a prime example of the struggles of handling a pluralistic identity during the…

  • The Weary Blues of Prohibition and “The New Woman”

    Langston Hughes was one of the most prominent voices of the 1920s through the Harlem Renaissance which celebrated Black culture, creativity, and intellectualism. Langston Hughes’ poetry Collection The Weary Blues…

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    The Nixon Nitration Explosion

    Overview The Nixon Nitration Works was a factory that manifactured highly flamable materials like cellulose nitrate and the lack of supervison in the factory caused the huge disater of March…

  • The Great Playground: Leisure, Race and Sexuality at the Cotton Club

    The Cotton Club was arguably the most popular nightclub in Harlem during the 1920s, emerging at the height of the Jazz Age and the Harlem Renaissance. Established in September 1923…

  • The Cotton Club: A Legacy of Jazz and Racism

    What Was the Cotton Club? The Cotton Club was the most popular nightclub in Harlem during the 1920s, emerging at the height of the Jazz Age and the Harlem Renaissance.…

  • The Rosewood Massacre

    Overview The Rosewood Massacre occurred from January 1 to January 7, 1923. This week of terror took place in Rosewood, Levy County, Florida, United States. It was a race riot that…

  • The Fire of Smyrna

    The 1921 Tulsa Massacre and the burning of Black Wall Street have garnered significant attention in recent times. However, Tulsa was not an isolated incident in the 1920s. Across the…

  • The Great Mississippi Flood of 1927: A Catastrophic Event in the Roaring Twenties

    Overview The great Mississippi flood of 1927 remains one of the most devastating natural disasters in the history of the United States, but more specifically in the southern region. The…

  • Tulsa Race Massacre

    Overview The Tulsa Race Massacre or Tulsa Race Riot is a tragic event in American history that occurred on May 31, 1921, to June 1, 1921. The exact cause of…

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