The Roaring 20’s a.k.a. The Jazz Age

The Great Migration During the early 1900’s over 1 million African Americans left the South to escape racial violence and the Jim Crow laws.

Many African Americans found jobs in the steel mills and automobile factories.

The Jazz Age New Orleans: birth place of Armstrong… Chicago: birth place of jazz?

Either way, jazz was popularized in NYC during the Harlem Renaissance.

Where is Harlem?

What was the Harlem Renaissance?   -A time during the 1920’s of great creativity and cultural pride for African American artists living in Harlem.

“To whirl and to dance Till the white day is done” -Langston Hughes

Georgia O’Keeffe found inspiration for many of her paintings from nature.

Writers of the early 1900’s varied greatly in style and subject matter. Fitzgerald wrote about the wealth of the 20’s Steinbeck wrote about the lean times of the 30’s

Babe Ruth set the record for most home runs in a season (60) during the 1927 season.

Because of his celebrity status, he was asked to endorse many products.

Charles Lindbergh and the Spirit of St. Louis

Lindbergh became famous when he became the first person to fly solo across the Atlantic Ocean.

A year later, Amelia Earhart became the first woman to complete the transatlantic flight.

Earhart wanted to be the first to fly around the world, but her plane crashed somewhere in the Pacific.

Ford changed the automobile industry and America. By using the assembly line to speed up mass production he made cars more affordable. The increase in demand for cars increased the need for highways, gas stations, motels, and diners.

Advertisements persuaded people to buy many new items; people who could not afford them bought on credit.