1. Tension during 1920's
Along with industrialization, the invention of the automobile quickened American life and loosened its morals. ... Because of the great age of radio, the new ideas were spread quickly and larger numbers were exposed to them. ... Another example of the dominance of new, looser morals came from marriage/divorce statistics. ... Other manifestations of conflict are seen in Langston Hughes "The Negro Artist and the Racial Mountain," when he writes of the "revolt against weariness in a white world." He writes of the stress between the new artists and those who stick to the old traditions. ...
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