TEWWG Setting

TEWWG takes place mostly in Eatonville, Florida in the 1920s and 1930s.

-During the 1920s and 1930s, the U.S had plenty of segregation and discrimination against African Americans. 

-The Harlem shake started in the 1920s and ended during the Great Depression in the 1930s. 

-Women voted in a national election for the very first time in 1920.

-The Ku Klux Klan began targeting not only African Americans but also Catholics, Jews, and immigrants in the 1920s.

-The 1920s were a time of mass-huge quantities of manufactured goods were available, and many people had more money to spend them.

-In the 1920s, led by Henry Ford and the automobile industry, mass production and moving assembly line resulted in uniform products produced at lower costs. It mad possible a consumer-oriented economy, one in which more goods were available to more Americans.

-Americans had more leisure times in the 1920s because of a short work week and more paid vacation. Millions of people a week went to the theaters to watch the first movie with sound.

-Regarding sports, the NFL (National Football League) was founded in 1920 as the American Professional Football Association in Canton, Ohio.

-The 18th amendment to the U.S Constitution went into affect in January 17,1920. This Amendment prohibited the making, selling, possession, and consumption of alcoholic beverages. Prohibition, the most flouted law in history was repealed in 1933.

American Presidents in 1920-1930s
28th President. Woodrow Wilson (1913-1921)
29th President. Warren G. Harding (1921-1923)
30th President. Calvin Coolidge (1923-1929)
31st President. Herbert Hoover (1929-1933)
32nd President. Franklin D. Roosevelt (1933-1945)

Zora Neale Hurston

1.

   The wildly creatively beautiful African American woman named Zora Neale Hurston was a famously noticeable writer on African American Literature in the twentieth-century. She was part of the Harlem Renaissance and she also influenced many other writers. Zora was born in Notasulga, Alabama in January 7, 1891. She was John Hurston, who was a carpenter and Baptist preacher, and Lucy Potts Hurston, a school teacher, fifth child. She completed her high school requirements in Morgan Academy, Baltimore, September 17-June 1918. She became a waitress for summer 1918 then she attended Howard Prep School, Washington D.C from 1918-1919. After all that she finally became one step closer to completing her education in Howard University in 1924, she received her associates degree in 1920. After that she started publishing out short stories and her first story was published in 1921, it was called ,"John Redding Goes to Sea." Later on she went to Barnard College to study anthropology from 1925-1927. After completing her education, she finally began gaining fame because of her brilliant pieces of literature. Eventually she married Herbert Sheen and began climbing her way up to fame.

2.

   "Those that don't got it can't show it. Those that got it can't hide it."

    

      -This means that anyone doesn't have anything, can't show anything. This can imply to anything in life such, it can be physical or spiritual whatever the case this can imply to it. For example, if someone has a lot of money and power, they can show it by the car they drive and the way they dress and act. Power corrupts people so they are bound to show off their wealth. While on the other hand, people who do not have a lot of money can't hide the fact that they are poor because they might always have torn clothes or are always starving. Whatever the case, she is right.