America Between the Wars, 1919-1941: A Documentary Reader [Paperback]

This collection situates over seventy essential primary documents in their historical context to illustrate the American experience during the interwar era (1919-1941).

• Introduces a broad range of cultural and historical topics, from race and the role of women to trends in literature and the Great Depression
• Includes a range of photographs and illustrations
• End-of-chapter questions encourage critical thinking and analysis,  while a bibliography prepares students for further research

Series Editors' Preface x

Source Acknowledgments xii

Introduction 1

Chapter 1 Challenges to Postwar Readjustment 10

1 W. E. B. DuBois, Returning Soldiers, 1919 10

2 Jack Gaveel, Workers Need to Radicalize, 1919 12

3 A. Mitchell Palmer on Communism in America, 1920 15

4 Warren Harding, “Readjustment,” 1920 18

5 Charlotte Perkins Gilman, Immigration Hurts America, 1923 20

Chapter 2 Social Battles of the 1920s 24

1 Grand Dragon Hiram Evans on the Klan and Americanism, 1926 24

2 The Menace of Fundamentalism, 1925 30

3 Edwin E. Slosson, The Futility of Anti-Prohibition, 1920 32

4 Why Boston Wishes to Hang Sacco and Vanzetti, 1927 34

Chapter 3 The New Negro 38

1 Floyd J. Calvin, Criticizing Southern Lynching, 1923 38

2 Marcus Garvey Addresses UNIA Supporters in Philadelphia, 1919 41

3 Alain Locke, Harlem, 1925 43

4 Pace Phonograph Corporation, Supporting Black Businesses, 1921 47

5 Zora Neale Hurston, How It Feels to Be ColorlC3