How widespread was intolerance of the blacks in the 1920's?

        Because of this racism in the South, many blacks moved to the North, in order to avoid it. Although the level of racism was much lower in the North, it still lacked equality in many areas. One is rent- blacks lived in crammed conditions, in segregations, and paid far higher rent than whites. Because of such racial intolerance, different religious and cultural groups preferred to live together, to avoid racism and unfair treatment. It was because of reasons as this that rather than everyone living together equally in America, that groups were formed, which consisted of one race and excluded others. In this aspect, it wasn’t only the whites, which were racially intolerant towards others, but also vice versa.

        Although it was mainly the South, which was racist as uneducated people competed for manual jobs with the blacks, other less obvious forms of racism have to be considered. In the North, different races lived in segregations as to avoid racism from others. In this way, not only were the protestant whites showing intolerance towards immigrants, Catholics and Jews, but also as were the people living in these segregations, by excluding whites. Although this is true, it may only be out of necessity, protection and self-defence. Because of these factors, even though there was much more tolerance than in the South, all people still weren’t treated as equals. Also, intolerance was not only limited to the general American society, but also individuals themselves. Many felt blacks were still slaves and should not be considered free, and many were too narrow-minded to embrace the multi-ethnicity ideal of the government. There were countless individual racist incidents, including violence. Because some policemen of the time still had individual opinions, they could have acted on their prejudiced views and did not impose the proper punishments unto the guilty. The perfect example for this are members of the Ku Klux Klan who were either in the police force, or in political power.  Because of these reasons, the only conclusion seems to be that although obvious racism seems to have been much more concentrated in the South, in the North it was still apparent in many ways, yet more subtle than lynching.