What were the Characteristics of Education & Culture During the 1920s? Al-Madinah School || 11th Grade Boys & Girls United States History & Government November 23, 2018

How did Education Change? Factors That caused more students to go to schools Prosperity of America Business & Industries’ requirement for a more educated workforce Number of Change of High School Students 1914: 1million 1926: 4 million

Before 1920s: High Schools were preparing students for college Changes in School Before 1920s: High Schools were preparing students for college During 1920s schools offered wide range of courses Vocational training Home economics Increased immigrant children in high schools

Impact of Education Increased Literacy More people were reading newspapers Newspaper Chains rose National magazines became popular News Magazines also started Magazines with fictions and articles Radio became a powerful mass media Created shared national experience

Popular Culture and New Heroes More Money led to having new ways of spending Fads: puzzles and games Sports events Golden Age of Sports &New Heroes Athletes became popular Charles Lindbergh: Cross Atlantic Flight

Popular Culture and New Heroes Cinema became national pastime The Jazz Singer (First Movie with Sound) Steamboat Willie (First Animated Movie)

Popular Culture and New Heroes Artists & Artistic Traditions First break from European traditions Eugene O'Neil: Wrote plays to depict confusion in American life George Gershwin: New blend of American Jazz Music Edward Hopper & Georgia O’Keeffe showed new style of American painting

Popular Culture and New Heroes Novelist F. Scott Fitzgerald coined the term “Jazz Age”/ Earnest Hemingway another novelist Writer Sinclair Lewis was the first American to win Nobel Prize for Literature Edna Vincent Millay (Poet) Some disliked new American Culture calling it “lost generation” and left the country, like Gertrude Stein

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What is Harlem Renaissance and What Impact did It Have? United States History and Government Br. Siraj Friday, November 23, 2018

African Americans & Harlem Renaissance Great Migration brought a lot of African Americans to Northern Cities NAACP worked for the advancement of them Writers and Artists worked for NAACP James Weldon Johnson, poet & lawyer, fought for the anti-lynching laws Marcus Garvey appealed to black pride – Formed UNIA

Harlem Renaissance The literary and artistic movement of African Americans that began at Harlem neighborhood of New York City. Calude McKay, Poet, urged for resisting discrimination Langston Hughes: Wrote about the daily life of the working class blacks. Zora Neale Hurston: Collected the folklore of poor southern blacks

Paul Robeson, actor and Singer Louis Armstrong, the most influential Jazz musician Duke Ellington, Jazz pianist and composer Besse Smith & Josephine Baker, Singers

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