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Nadirah Kaba Was American Society Intolerant in the 1920's? American society was undergoing vast changes in the early twentieth century. The world was changing and America was not to be left behind. The twentieth century brought with it to America the consumer age and although technology was becoming more advanced was society really progressing with the times and becoming as 'civilised' as people liked to believe? In the past America had been a very intolerant society with slavery being one of its key industries and although it operated a 'melting pot' open door policy was the white, Anglo Saxon, Protestant (W.A.S.P) society really as open minded as they liked to believe about the diversity of other cultures? The aim of this essay is to try and explore how tolerant American society really was, looking into the key areas of racism, political intolerance and religion. In the 1920's, political intolerance in America rose drastically,...

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