Discussion 7
The 1920s were years that were considered to be the “ Roaring Twenties”. A lot of culture, economic changes and social changes were really increased during these years from 1920-1929. A lot of people considered a symbol/marker of these years were flappers due to Jazz music becoming widely popular and considered to be a new style of music. Speakeasies were becoming g rapidly more popular and common due to the Prohibition of alcohol sales and any production of it. Telephones and Cars and Radios started really taking off during this time and The Harlem Reinassance flourished with the ideas of African Americans with their literature, art and music styles. One movie/book that reminds of the 1920s was The Great Gats y that really shows you through lifestyles of how people were living around this time. All the flappers,music and the bars and illegal importing of alcohol since it was banned due to the Prohibition.
2. Billie Holiday was to be considered one of the best and greatest jazz singers from the 1930s up to the 1950s. She was one of the jazz singers who used her singing and her voice to provide attention to racial injustices and speak up against white supremacy. Not a lot of people were found of this, especially bars that she would sing at who would tell her not to sing specific songs due to the controversy of them. Due to her singing these songs, it brought alot unwarranted attention especially from government officials. The federal Bureau of narcotics didn’t necessarily have a focus, but targeted individuals just like Billie Holiday who they considered to be politically threatening. They had no real reason to arrest Billie Holiday, but used her drug and alcohol abuse to pursue her arrest. Billie Holiday had drug and alcohol addiction due to a very traumatic childhood, and that was her form of coping( Throughline: The United States Vs Billie Holiday) .They always said it was due to her song called. The strange fruit was the real reason she was pursued, but arresting someone for music was not necessarily a real reason. The FBN was constantly harassing and targeting Billie Holiday as they were constantly setting her up with drug charges, and she was constantly in and out of jail she was never fully able to get away from her drug addiction and alcohol addiction due to all the trauma of being in out of prison, even though she was not really doing anything illegal, besides protesting through song.
3. Buck V. Bell The Supreme Court upheld, the Virginia law, allowing for sterilization individuals that were considered to be feeble minded or unfit to Procreate. The case was on Carrie Buck, who was a young woman that was deemed as feeble minded, and she was sterilized under Virginia’s Eugenical sterilization act. The Supreme Court decided to uphold this law arguing that the state had its right to sterilize any individual that was deemed to be unfit to procreate to protect the health and welfare of the state. (Air, F. (2016, March 7). The Supreme Court ruling that led to 70,000 forced sterilizations.) this was an extremely big controversial decision and had a very big impact. For sterilization program started to appear around the United States resulting in the 70,000 sterilization of individuals who were considered to be unfit. In some states like Connecticut, they tried to create laws to keep people who redeem to be feeble minded or unfit institutionalized until their childbearing ages were over and they could no longer procreate. They tried to find any reason to deem people unfit or feeble minded or any little thing that made you any sort of different to stop you from being able to reproduce.
Sources :
Air, F. (2016, March 7). The Supreme Court ruling that led to 70,000 forced sterilizations.
Throughline : The United States V Billie Holiday
The 1920s were years that were considered to be the “ Roaring Twenties”. A lot of culture, economic changes and social changes were really increased during these years from 1920-1929. A lot of people considered a symbol/marker of these years were flappers due to Jazz music becoming widely popular and considered to be a new style of music. Speakeasies were becoming g rapidly more popular and common due to the Prohibition of alcohol sales and any production of it. Telephones and Cars and Radios started really taking off during this time and The Harlem Reinassance flourished with the ideas of African Americans with their literature, art and music styles. One movie/book that reminds of the 1920s was The Great Gats y that really shows you through lifestyles of how people were living around this time. All the flappers,music and the bars and illegal importing of alcohol since it was banned due to the Prohibition.
2. Billie Holiday was to be considered one of the best and greatest jazz singers from the 1930s up to the 1950s. She was one of the jazz singers who used her singing and her voice to provide attention to racial injustices and speak up against white supremacy. Not a lot of people were found of this, especially bars that she would sing at who would tell her not to sing specific songs due to the controversy of them. Due to her singing these songs, it brought alot unwarranted attention especially from government officials. The federal Bureau of narcotics didn’t necessarily have a focus, but targeted individuals just like Billie Holiday who they considered to be politically threatening. They had no real reason to arrest Billie Holiday, but used her drug and alcohol abuse to pursue her arrest. Billie Holiday had drug and alcohol addiction due to a very traumatic childhood, and that was her form of coping( Throughline: The United States Vs Billie Holiday) .They always said it was due to her song called. The strange fruit was the real reason she was pursued, but arresting someone for music was not necessarily a real reason. The FBN was constantly harassing and targeting Billie Holiday as they were constantly setting her up with drug charges, and she was constantly in and out of jail she was never fully able to get away from her drug addiction and alcohol addiction due to all the trauma of being in out of prison, even though she was not really doing anything illegal, besides protesting through song.
3. Buck V. Bell The Supreme Court upheld, the Virginia law, allowing for sterilization individuals that were considered to be feeble minded or unfit to Procreate. The case was on Carrie Buck, who was a young woman that was deemed as feeble minded, and she was sterilized under Virginia’s Eugenical sterilization act. The Supreme Court decided to uphold this law arguing that the state had its right to sterilize any individual that was deemed to be unfit to procreate to protect the health and welfare of the state. (Air, F. (2016, March 7). The Supreme Court ruling that led to 70,000 forced sterilizations.) this was an extremely big controversial decision and had a very big impact. For sterilization program started to appear around the United States resulting in the 70,000 sterilization of individuals who were considered to be unfit. In some states like Connecticut, they tried to create laws to keep people who redeem to be feeble minded or unfit institutionalized until their childbearing ages were over and they could no longer procreate. They tried to find any reason to deem people unfit or feeble minded or any little thing that made you any sort of different to stop you from being able to reproduce.
Sources :
Air, F. (2016, March 7). The Supreme Court ruling that led to 70,000 forced sterilizations.
Throughline : The United States V Billie Holiday