The Roaring Twenties Unit Question  How does pop culture reflect and affect the temper of the times?  Pop culture  Collection of ideas that permeate.

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The Roaring Twenties

Unit Question  How does pop culture reflect and affect the temper of the times?  Pop culture  Collection of ideas that permeate everyday life  Reflect vs affect  Effect vs cause  Temper of the times  Overall feeling and attitudes

Foundation of the 1920s  Called the Roaring Twenties  Post-WWI anxiety  Fear of the future

Flapper girls

Demographic Changes  Increased urbanization  Growth of the suburbs  Rich moving out of dirty cities  Cars more affordable to everyone

Demographic Changes  Congress limited immigration from E. Europe and Asia  Increased immigration from Canada and Mexico  Development of barrios Mexican immigrant workers

Technological Advances  Electricity  1916 – 13%  1927 – 63%  Household appliances  Vacuum cleaners  Washing machines  Cars  Henry Ford Model T  Better roads

Women in the 1920s  Women remain at work after WWI  Demanding rights  19 th amendment  Gave women the right to vote  Women politicians  Jeanette Rankin  Miriam Ferguson Women voting in NYC

Women in the 1920s  Housewives  Return to normalcy  Working women  Not allowed into “professions”  Secretaries, nurses, teachers, etc  Flappers  Young, rebellious  Symbol of women’s freedom secretary

Gibson Girl – 1900 Flapper – 1920

Black Americans  Fought in WWI but return home to discrimination  Very few non-farm jobs available in South  Great Migration continues  Red Summer  Lynchings, violence  Revival of the KKK

Black Americans  NAACP fighting for federal anti- discrimination laws  Never passed  Law enforcement slowly improving  KKK not crushed until 1927

Black Americans  The Garvey Movement  Urged return to “motherland Africa”  Message of racial pride and independence  First black pride movement in the US Marcus Garvey

Harlem Renaissance  Celebration of Black American culture centered in NYC  Artists, poets, authors, dancers, musicians James Weldon Johnson

Claude McKay Langston Hughes

Communication Advances  Mass media  Print & broadcast methods of getting the same information to large numbers of people  Created national culture  Radio  1 st station 1920  1922 – 500 stations Frank Conrad

Communication Advances  Newspapers  Thicker  Smaller papers going out of business  Spreading national, not just local news  Magazines  Less news, more entertainment  Growth of advertising

Entertainment – Sports  Mass media created national heroes  More free time, more money led to development of professional sports teams Jim Thorpe

Babe Ruth

Charles Lindbergh Jack Dempsey

Entertainment – Music  Jazz Age  Developed from ragtime and blues  Symbolized free manners and morals of 1920s  Also sadness of Black Americans  One of few areas open to black entertainers Ella Fitzgerald

Benny Goodman Jelly Roll Morton

Louis Armstrong Duke Ellington

Entertainment – authors  Books and poetry about being disconnected and alone  Lost Generation  Group of artists and authors who rejected US society and moved to Europe F. Scott & Zelda Fitzgerald

E. E. Cummings Ernest Hemingway

Zora Neale Hurston Gertrude Stein

Entertainment – movies  Cheap entertainment available for all  Silent until late 1920s  Helped to create a national culture rather than a local one

Greta Garbo Lillian Gish

Laurel and Hardy Charlie Chaplin

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