Those forms of entertainment were very popular in the 1930's because in the 1930's thats when the Great Depression was still going on so all of the unemployed people during the Great Depression wanted to at least have some fun without having to spend a whole lot of money.
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In the United States before the Civil War, it was illegal to teach a slave to read or write.
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- In the southern states where slavery was legal and most white families owned slaves, it was illegal to educate a slave to become literate.
- The act of teaching a slave was unanimously criminalized by all the southern states because the leaders of these states feared the idea of slave getting educated and revolting against them.
- The states had laws in place to punish the one who tried to educate slaves.
