Digital History Seminar: 20th Century Spain

Before Spain

Through the history the U.S., African American had been promised many of times in wars, that if they served, freedom and rights would be granted to the black man. Before World War I, this very promise was promised, and after it would be broken, again. This result lead to large numbers of black American aligning themselves with radical ideologies. This new group of black people, with new ways of thinking, would be the result of years of oppression. One example of the oppression could be explained by the 1896 Supreme Court Case called Plessy v. Ferguson. That ruling would state that segregation did not contradict the Constitution.
Segregation would fuel a lot of the African Americans passions. Blacks would be confronted by forces of white supremacy, with groups like the KKK (Ku Klux Klan). 

Black people were looking for places of escape. The communist government in Russia caught the eye of many black people. One famous black person by the name of Cyril Briggs thought very highly of the new foreign ideology. Brigg was the leader of an African American Brotherhood, that wanted to arm black men for self-defense and called for unity with poor whites to overthrow capitalism in the U.S. In 1924 Briggs would lead his follower to join the U.S. Communist Party. 

This would be the start of something greater for blacks. Many other would also turn the U.S. Communist Party for inspiration and money support. 
 

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