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The Roaring Twenties A Decade of Change and

Contradictions!

Labor Unrest!★ Strikes!★ Anti-Communist Fears!

Lenin, Vladimir Ilich

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Radicals & Bombs!★ Dissatisfaction Spurs Extremists!★ Bombings!

The Red Scare!★ Public Hysteria!– immigrants and Labor leaders!

★ Palmer Raids!★ Anti-Immigration Laws!

Rising Intolerance!★ Sacco & Vanzetti!★ KKK!★ Race Riots/ Lynching!

Strange Fruit!★  Southern trees bear a strange fruit!★  Blood on the leaves, and blood at the root!★  Black Bodies swingin’ in the southern breeze!★  Strange fruit hangin’ from the poplar trees!★  Oh, Oh, Oh!

★  Pastoral scene of the gallant sough!★  Of the bulgin’ eyes and the twisted mouth!★  Scent of magnolia, sweet and fresh!★  And the sudden smell of burning flesh!

★  Here is a fruit for the crows to cluck!★  For the rain to gather and for wind to suck!★  For the sun to rot, for the trees to drop!★  Oh, here is a strange and bitter crop!★  Oh, here is a strange and bitter crop!

Black Pride!★ Marcus Garvey!★ UNIA!

Scopes Monkey Trial!★ Religion vs. Science!

Scopes Trial

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