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Education and Popular Culture in the 20s

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1 Education and Popular Culture in the 20s
How do schools & mass media shape the Roaring 20s?

2 Education on the rise Public school enrollment increases by 2.5 million students in the 1920s ● Secondary schools prepare students for job market (vocational education) ● Student dress, slang & behavior become the “norm” for pop culture ● School costs increase, meaning tax increases for average citizens

3 2) Dance Marathons Fads of the Roaring 20s 1) Flagpole sitting
5) The Charleston P U Z Z L E S 3) Barnstormers 4) Games S W O R D

4 Mass Media ● Newspaper & magazine circulation increases causing more literacy ● Radio: allows people to hear live sporting events, news & entertainment

5 Sports Heroes Baseball: Babe Ruth, Lou Gehrig & Andrew “Rube” Foster
Gertrude Ederie was first woman to swim the English Channel Helen Willis dominated women’s tennis Jack Dempsey dominates boxing

6 w/ sound “Steamboat Willie”
That’s Entertainment! ● Charlie Chaplain: most famous silent movie stars ● : 1st movie with sound, “ The Jazz Singer” ● : First animated film w/ sound “Steamboat Willie” George Gershwin = top composer of 1920s Georgia O’ Keefe top 1920s artist

7 Famous American Writers
● Sinclair Lewis = 1st American to win the Nobel Prize in literature ● F. Scott Fitzgerald , wrote Great Gatsby, coined the term “jazz age” ● Edna St. Vincent Millay = wrote poems celebrating youth & independence ● Ernest Hemingway = Criticizes the glorification of war, he & Fitzgerald part of Lost Generation

8 Aviation Heroes Charles Lindbergh
1st person to fly solo non-stop across the Atlantic Ocean (1927) NY-Paris Becomes instant celebrity/first airline “Pan-Am” is born Amelia Earhart 1st woman to cross Atlantic (1928, 1932) 1st person to fly from HI to CA (1935) Tries to circumnavigate the globe but plane disappears (1937)


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