SOURCE A Louis Armstrong at the height of his fame
The 1920s were a time of unprecedented economic growth and prosperity in the USA. But to what extent did African Americans share in this wealth? Many in the South remained confined to a life of poverty as sharecroppers, permanently indebted to wealthier white landowners. ‘Jim Crow’ laws in the southern states segregated the races in education, transport and leisure facilities, keeping the African Americans in a position of inferiority, yet some of those who moved to the big cities of the north and northeast United States — the ‘great migration’ — fared better.
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