1. DON’T JUDGE A BOOK BY ITS COVER

2. THE ROARING 20’S CULTURAL LIBERATION
DISAFFECTED VIEW OF MANY POST VERSAILLES FAILURE
LOST GENERATION OF WRITERS: S. LEWIS (BABBIT & MAIN STREET), T.S. ELLIOT (THE WASTELAND) WM. FAULKNER (THE SOUND & THE FURY)
ESCAPE CONSPIRACY AGAINST THE INDIVIDUAL
CASUTIC PROBING OF SMALL TOWN LIFE, REJECT TRADITION (e.e.cummings)
LITERATURE GREATEST CULTURAL ADVANCE BOTH BLACK & WHITE

3. THE HARLEM RENAISSANCE
PRIDE IN CULTURE, HERITAGE
HUGE OUTPOURING OF LITERATURE
LANGSTON HUGHES, ZORA NEAL HURSTON, COUNTEE CULLEN
MUSICAL GENIUS – LOUIE ARMSTRONG & OTHERS
JAZZ MUSIC –IMPROVISATION, BREAK W/ TRADITIONAL MUSIC
MARCUS GARVEY & “BACK TO AFRICA” MOVEMENT – FAILURE OVERALL WHEN BLACK STAR LINE BANKRUPT BUT SUCCESS WITH “BLACK CROSS” NURSES & POMP LED TO REVITALIZED BLACK CONSCIOUSNESS
NOT PAN-AFRICAN MOVEMENT
MANY CONCERNED W/ ECONOMIC STABILITY BOTH BLACK & WHITE

4. FILM, RADIO, ARCHITECTURE

5. WHAT GOES UP BOOMING BUSINESS AFTER BRIEF POSTWAR DEPRESSION 1922
FARMERS DON’T PARTICIPATE IN GROWTH
GROWTH OF CITIES LED TO INCREASED DEMAND FOR GOODS
BUSINESS & HOUSEHOLDS RUN ON ELECTRICITY (60%)
WWI MENTALITY OF SAVING NOW REPLACED WITH BUY, BUY, BUY
CORPORATE CONSOLIDATION, MASS MARKETING, CONSUMER EXPECTATIONS TRANSFORMED SOCIETY
MOST IMPORTANT CHARACTERISTIC OF STOCK MARKET WAS SPECULA-TION & BUYING ON MARGIN
CONSPICUOUS CONSUMPTION RAMPANT

6. REIGNING IN THE BULL ECONOMY NOT AS SOUND AS IT APPEARS
MERGERS LED TO JOB LOSS –GROWTH IN CONSUMER DEBT: FARMER’S $273 PER CAPITA
WORKERS $681 PER CAPITA
WAGE DISPARITY BETWEEN N. FACTORY WORKERS VS. SOUTHERN
TRUCKING REPLACING RR
NATURAL GAS & PETROLEUM REPLACING COAL
RAYON REPLACING COTTON
SOUTH REPLACING NORTH AS MFG. CENTER

7. WOMEN IN THE NEW ECONOMIC ORDER
FLAPPER – SUBSET OF WOMEN, YOUNG, URBAN, SINGLE – MOST WORKING, WORRYING, WAITING
WAGE DISCRIMINATION
ERA FAILS 1923
EDUCATION INCREASES BUT NOT REPRESENTED IN THEIR PROFESSION; MED SCHOOL QUOTAS
MARGARET SANGER: BIRTH CONTROL ONE OF PROGRESSIVE MOVEMENTS IMPORTANT LEGACIES

8. A – U – T - O 2nd INDUSTRIAL REVOLUTION – ELECTRICITY NOT STEAM
70% OF INDUSTRIAL POWER ELECTRIC
1913 HENRY FORD PERFECTS THE ASSEMBLY LINE, CARS $300; FOR THE MASSES? ANY COLOR AS LONG AS IT’S BLACK!
% OF AMERICANS OWNED CARS BUT IN % BOUGHT ON CREDIT
MILLIONTH MODEL T CAME OFF THE LINE IN MICHIGAN
CHRYSLER INTRODUCES COLOR & COMPETITION BEGINS
1929 AUTO MFG ACCOUNTED FOR 9% OF ALL MFG. WAGES
DRIVE IN MOVIES, CAR DATES, TRIPS TO THE SHORE, HOTELS, MOTELS, HOLIDAY INN’S, RESTAURANTS, SERVICE STATIONS; JOBS GROWING EXPONENTIALLY