Please discuss racism that occurred specifically in Alabama in the 1920s.

Racism was at a fever pitch in the 1920s, and in Alabama
it was focused mainly against African-Americans, although smaller numbers of immigrants
and Jews faced widespread discrimination both in Alabama and
elsewhere.

The 1920s saw a resurgence of the KKK, largely
under the leadership of former Methodist Reverend William Joseph Simmons.  The movie
The Birth of a Nation was also very popular during this time, and
glorified the KKK as protectors of the white race.  Jim Crow segregation was the law of
the land, and in Alabama, black sharecroppers and cotton mill workers labored in
poverty, often for "company towns" and under contracts that required they buy all of
their goods from the land or company owners, at inflated
prices.

By 1924, there were 115,000 official members of the
Klan in Alabama alone, and they were responsible for getting numerous local officials,
judges, senators and even some governors elected during that
time.