HIST 122 Lecture Notes - Lecture 21: Universal Negro Improvement Association And African Communities League, Jim Crow Laws, True South Geographical Union
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In 1919, there were 78 blacks lynched in just one year after the war: some were still in their uniforms. Vale(cid:374)ti(cid:374)e"s da(cid:455) massa(cid:272)re: all the ga(cid:374)g leaders (cid:449)ere (cid:271)rought together for a (cid:862)(cid:272)o(cid:373)pro(cid:373)ise(cid:863) a(cid:374)d the(cid:455) all e(cid:374)ded up getting shot. Baseball: 1919 chicago white sox won the world series, charles cominskey, prided himself on how low he paid his players. In the world series, the players were approached by some gamblers and agreed to throw games to make some money: they were brought to trial and were acquitted, commissioner of baseball. Judge candess: he decided courts made a mistake, he took it upon himself to kick those players out of baseball, black sox scandal of 1919, emergence of babe ruth. It was just a vicious cycle: solution. Lower the tariff: not demand repayment of wwi losses, which would have given. Germany a chance to recover: the general public was against anything german, t. s.