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Law Practice

Dec. 21, 1999

Crossing the Race Line -- America Opened Its Arms to the Tired, the Poor, the Europeans

The 1920s roared in America, all right. They roared with conflict. Women got the vote. Lindbergh crossed the Atlantic. Speculating made folks flush. But the rise of Ku Klux Klan, the Scopes trial, the case of Sacco and Vanzetti and the creation of the border patrol signaled an ominous rise in intolerance of racial, religious and ethnic differences in America.

By Daniel A. Shaw
Daily Journal Staff Writer
         The 1920s roared in America, all right. They roared with conflict.
        Women got the vote. Lindbergh crossed the Atlantic. Speculating made folks flush. But the rise of Ku Klux Klan, the Scopes trial, the case of Sacco and Vanzetti and the creation of the...

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