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History—America (1920s and 30s)
Jewish mobsters ruled most of the large cities of America as the Roaring Twenties brought wealth and strikes as well as the formation of syndicalist trade unions and unrest.
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On 20 March 1924, the Virginia General Assembly successfully passed two laws that had arisen out of concerns about eugenics and race: SB 219 entitled "The Racial Integrity Act."[1][2] To put it better in context, there were no other laws in the State of Virginia or in other states that formally tackled this issue, and thus its importance in United States history. With respect to its relation with eugenics, the passing of this Act was also influenced by the Virginia Sterilization Act of 1924 for which, according to the PBS American Experience documentary "The Eugenics Crusade," this was due to the number of cases reported that doctors evaluated where they found other genetic traits that are also found in what they perceived at the time as other races - African Americans or Native Americans in particular.[3]
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The Communist Party USA, officially the Communist Party of the United States of America (CPUSA),[4] is a communist party in the United States established in 1919 after a split in the Socialist Party of America.[5]
The CPUSA has a long and complex history that ties closely with the American labor movement and the histories of communist parties worldwide. The party was influential in American politics in the first half of the 20th century and played a prominent role in the labor movement from the 1920s through the 1940s, becoming known for opposing racism and racial segregation. Its membership increased during the Great Depression, but the CPUSA subsequently declined due to events such as the second Red Scare and the influence of McCarthyism while its support for the Soviet Union increasingly alienated it from the rest of the left in the United States in the 1960s.
