Jim Crow Laws
Jim Crow laws sanction racial segregation. The laws are exhibited openly. Boyle writes, "Every place they passed bore the brand of segregation and the Jim Crow Laws. Every station had its "whites" and "coloreds" signs hanging above separate waiting rooms. Every view had its hidden terrors." The laws mean that whites and coloreds are unequal; thus, they cannot share facilities. A violation of the laws would result in extreme violence against the violator, especially if they are colored.
Massive Migration
Large-scale relocation of the blacks from the South resulted in cultural diversity in the northern cities. Boyle reports, "The war slowed the mass migration from Europe, but it launched the Great Migration of Negroes from the South. There were fifty-seven hundred blacks living in Detroit in 1910, ninety-one thousand in New York." The number of colored people increased in subsequent years because the migrants gave birth there. The number of immigrant children exceeded the number of native-born kids in all the big cities in the north. The cities had large numbers of polyglots due to their diversity.
Women of the Jazz Era
During the Jazz epoch, women's lives revolved around the domestic sphere. Boyle expounds, "Most of the women worked at home. They rose early to make husbands and boarders breakfasts sufficient to steel them for a day of work, they bustled children off to school." While the children were at school, they completed tasks such as doing laundry, clearing homes, and shopping for commodities. Later in the day, they would prepare dinner and clean dishes. Domestic duties hindered women of the Jazz era from earning monetary wages like men.
