How widespread was racism and intolerance in America during the 1920s?

... How widespread was racism and intolerance in America during the 1920s? To the rest of the world in the 1920s America had the image of a land of prosperity, opportunity, freedom and tolerance. It gave the impression that if you went to live there you would soon become a naturalised American no matter where you came from. Because of this many immigrants flooded into America at the turn of the century from many different European states. But behind this façade things were a little bit different. America was not such a land of tolerance as it made out and many people suffered in the 1920s varying degrees of intolerance, discrimination and racism. On the whole immigrants were one large and diverse group of people who suffered varying degrees of discrimination in their slow process of assimilation. During the 1920s communism was spreading across Eastern Europe via Russia and the USA feared that

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