1. Mass Media
schooling is expanded to educate the masses: 4 million students attend high school now, sparked by higher edu standards 4 jobs
-new coverage of events began to shape public opinion : Time , Readers Digest
-invention of radio became a powerful influence : Most powerful form of Communication , 40% of homes had a radio, 1st time they could hear the news as it was happening
-*During the 20s Development in EDU & mass media had a powerful impact on the nation

2. Cultural Arts
-George Gershwin
Traditional elements combined with Am/Jazz- America’s new music sound
“Rhapsody in Blue”
-Georgia O’Keefe: Artist, painted beautiful buildings of cities, the skylines

3. Literature
-many writers felt alienated by the 20’s
-Sinclair Lewis: *1st writer to win Nobel Prize in Literature “Babbit”
-F. Scott Fitzgerald : Coined the term Jazz Age, portrayed American’s Wealth

4. Literature
-Gertrude Stein
“Lost Generation” Writers that moved to Europe
-Ernest Hemingway
“For Whom the Bell Tolls”
“Farewell to Arms”
- Criticized the War
-T.S. Eliot
“Wasteland”
-Robert Frost
“Road not Taken”

5. Heroes
-increased leisure time allowed people to pursue pastimes
-Babe Ruth : record 60 homeruns, 1927
-Jack Dempsey & Gene Tunney: heavy weight champions, 1927
-Red Grange Harold Edward "Red" Grange : Greatest FB Player ever by ESPN
-Notre Dame
-Bobby Jones famous golfer

6. Lucky Lindy
-trans-Atlantic flight
-Charles A. Lindbergh
1st nonstop SOLO Flight
33 hours
-Spirit of St. Louis
-American hero
-Amelia Earhart : 1st women to fly solo across the Atlantic in 15hrs

8. Hollywood 1922

9. Motion Pictures
-Hollywood emerges as world famous center of US film Industry
-Charlie Chaplin: Most famous actor/producer, comic relief “Little Tramp”
-Clara Bow
“It Girl” #1 Flapper, #1 Silent film star
-talking films, 1927
“Jazz Singer” 1st movie w.sound
-Mickey Mouse, 1930 Steamboat Willie

10. Motion Pictures
-Hollywood emerges
-Charlie Chaplin
“Little Tramp”
-Clara Bow
“It Girl”
-Rudolph Valentino
-talking films, 1927
:”Jazz Singer”
-Mickey Mouse, 1930

11. Motion Pictures
-Hollywood emerges
-Charlie Chaplin
“Little Tramp”
-Clara Bow
“It Girl”
-Rudolph Valentino
-talking films, 1927
:”Jazz Singer”
-Mickey Mouse, 1930

12. African American Goals
-literary and artistic movement
-celebrated African American culture: “Black is Beautiful”
-Black Nationalism
-Marcus Garvey
-Back to Africa movement
-believed A could build a separate society, in Africa to help throw off white colonial oppressors

13. Harlem Renaissance NYC
-literary and artistic movement
-celebrated African American culture
-Langston Hughes :Best known poet, described difficulty of being B in a W world
-Claude McKay:poet
-Zora Neal Hurston: Novelist & poet, portrayed the lives of poor unschooled Southern Blacks

15. Black Artists
-Paul Robeson famous AA Actor
-Louis Armstrong: The most influential AM musician in AM JAZZ history, young trumpet player, HOT FIVE
-Duke Ellington : *Famous for his 10 piece orchestra at the Cotton Club
-Bessie Smith : *most famous blues singer & outstanding vocalist of the Decade.

18. Links to youtube.com
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