Were the Roaring Twenties a time of depression (as in The Great Depression) or a time of happiness?
The Depression really came after the twenties. I thinkt he Depression is usually considered to have begun with the Wall Street Crash in 1929, and ended with America’s entry into World War Two in 1941. The 1920s was an era when a lot of people were conspicuously enjoying themselves, but even in the 20s there would have been plenty of poor people who led quite hard lives, but their lives would have become a lot harder during the Depression. For black people the 20s was a hard time, with a lot of discrimination as regards jobs etc. In America’s Women’ Gail Collins writes: ‘African American women of middle age or younger in the NOrth had approximately the same literacy rate as white women their age and were just as likely to send their children to school. But the payoff was much lower for black students. Even those with high school degrees were shut out of clerical and sales jobs in white neighborhoods. Employers refused to hire black women, even though they w ere better educated and worke
