What is the main idea/argument in the article, "When the Negro was in Vogue"?

Blacks had nowhere to sit in their own establishments.

White gangsters set up shop in African American neighborhoods.

Famous actors and actresses made themselves up in black face.

Black Americans were welcomed into the circles of the rich and famous because it was in vogue to entertain them. (Compare this to segregation)

The entire Renaissance was ironic because as the rich and famous were embracing black culture, the rest of the country continued to repress them. In the 1920's, lynchings of blacks by the Ku Klux Klan increased, entertainers donned black face and embraced black culture, all while exploiting it for their own purposes.

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