It was 1916 – A Good Year For Scapegoats In America.: "From “The Day They Hanged an Elephant in East Tennesee”
It was 1916, and things were changing fast. World War I raged in Europe. Dadaism, ripe with comic derision and irrationality, took hold in artistic circles. Freeform jazz took hold of the American music scene.
Margaret Sanger opened the first birth-control clinic. It was a good year for scapegoats. It was a good year to hang an elephant.
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