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LIFE & CULTURE IN AMERICA IN THE 1920S THE ROARING TWENTIES
Americans on the Move ,[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object]
URBAN VS. RURAL ,[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],Cities were impersonal Farms were innocent
Demographical Changes ,[object Object],Real Time Demographics ,[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object]
Other Migration ,[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object]
THE TWENTIES WOMAN ,[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],Chicago 1926
THE FLAPPER ,[object Object],[object Object],[object Object]
NEW ROLES FOR WOMEN ,[object Object],[object Object],Early 20 th  Century teachers
THE CHANGING AMERICAN FAMILY ,[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],Margaret Sanger and other founders of the American Birth Control League - 1921
MODERN FAMILY EMERGES ,[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object]
PROHIBITION
PROHIBITION ,[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],Prohibition lasted from 1920 to 1933 when it was repealed by the 21 st  Amendment
SUPPORT FOR PROHIBITION ,[object Object],[object Object]
Poster supporting prohibition
SPEAKEASIES AND BOOTLEGGERS ,[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],Speakeasies
ORGANIZED CRIME ,[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],Al Capone was finally convicted on tax evasion charges in 1931
Racketeering ,[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object]
St. Valentine’s Day Massacre ,[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object]
GOVERNMENT FAILS TO CONTROL LIQUOR   ,[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],Federal agents pour wine down a sewer
SUPPORT FADES, PROHIBITION REPEALED ,[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object]
SCIENCE AND RELIGION CLASH ,[object Object],[object Object],[object Object]
SCOPES TRIAL   ,[object Object],[object Object],Scopes was a biology teacher who dared to teach his students that man derived from lower species
SCOPES TRIAL ,[object Object],[object Object],Darrow Bryan
SCOPES TRIAL ,[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],Bryan Darrow
 
EDUCATION AND POPULAR CULTURE ,[object Object],[object Object],[object Object]
Mass Media ,[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],Newspapers:  27 million to 39 million Increase of 42% Motion Pictures:   40 million to 80 million Increase of 100% Radios:  60,000 to 10.2 million Increase of 16,983%
EXPANDING NEWS COVERAGE ,[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object]
RADIO COMES OF AGE ,[object Object],[object Object],[object Object]
ENTERTAINMENT AND ARTS ,[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],Walt Disney's animated  Steamboat Willie  marked the debut of Mickey Mouse. It was a seven minute long black and white cartoon.
Icons of 1920s
LINDBERGH’S FLIGHT ,[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object]
Amelia Earhart ,[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object]
AMERICAN HEROES OF THE 20s ,[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object]
MUSIC OF THE 1920s ,[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],Gershwin
EDWARD KENNEDY “DUKE” ELLINGTON ,[object Object],[object Object],[object Object]
LOUIS ARMSTRONG   ,[object Object],[object Object],[object Object]
BESSIE SMITH ,[object Object],[object Object]
BILLIE HOLIDAY ,[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object]
1920s DANCING ,[object Object],[object Object],[object Object]
Walt Disney ,[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object]
ART OF THE 1920s ,[object Object],Radiator Building, Night, New York  , 1927 Georgia O'Keeffe
WRITERS OF THE 1920s ,[object Object],[object Object],[object Object]
WRITERS OF THE 1920 ,[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],Hemingway - 1929
THE HARLEM RENAISSANCE ,[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],Migration of the Negro  by Jacob Lawrence
HARLEM, NEW YORK ,[object Object],[object Object],[object Object]
LANGSTON HUGHES ,[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object]
Ku Klux Klan ,[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object]
AFRICAN AMERICAN GOALS ,[object Object],[object Object]
MARCUS GARVEY - UNIA ,[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],Garvey represented a more radical approach
 

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