Marcus Garvey played a huge role in the period. He stated, "Black is Beautiful". He came to New York from Jamaica, later he gained ten million dollars for a steam ship called the "Black Star" which would lead him and others back to Africa. Later on in 1925, Garvey was charged with fraud and everything had collapsed, even though he was charged black people still fought for their rights. Blacks were very prominent during the 1920's. During World War I, more than 200,000 African Americans fought in the war in Europe thinking by when they come home there was going to be a change in equality and civil rights. It never went the way the blacks thought, they was still getting treated the same and had hard times wherever they go either North or South.
Women also played a huge role in the tensions of the 1920's. The Women's Christian Temperance Union was the largest and most influential women's group of the 19th century by expanding its platform to campaign for labor laws, prison reform, and suffrage[ CITATION GDo0s l 1033 ]. The organization was created by women who were concerned about the destructive power of alcohol, and the problems it was causing their families and society[ CITATION GDo0s l 1033 ]. Pauline Sabin was important whom thought of the union and created it. She was tired of the lack of civil rights woman had. She also founded Women's Organization for National Prohibition Reform in 1929. Her women's organization challenged the long-held assumption that virtually all women in the United States supported National Prohibition (1920-1933) and its enforcement[ CITATION Pau l 1033 ]. Women wanted their rights to be equal and wanted to be treated the same as everyone else tension was very tight throughout the 1920's. Another prominent lady figure was Margaret Sanger, she invented the birth control. Starting in the 1910s, Sanger actively challenged federal and state Comstock laws to bring birth control information and contraceptive devices to women[ CITATION Mar l 1033 ].
