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I also think that talking about the twenties as a good time for African-Americans rather misses the point that it was a time of desperate reconstruction, not from World War One but from the out-and-out pogroms of the post-war period.
Sure, the 1920s saw the Harlem Renaissance. It also saw the revival of the Klan, the burning of Tulsa, sundown towns, a huge wave of lynchings and so on. It was also a time of increased anti-Asian rhetoric, of one of the last great bursts of nativist sentiment, of immigrant communities having to go out and arm themselves to protect against Klansmen and the mobs of the majority.
Speaking solely of African-Americans - my understanding was that the 1920s are considered the post-Reconstruction nadir in race relations.