1. The Roaring 20’s
1920’s - Culture

2. Harlem Renaissance Harlem – world’s largest black urban community
In 1920’s became the focal point of intellectual, cultural, and artistic Black community.
Focused on what it meant to be Black in America and express a new pride in African American experience.
Jazz and Blues became popular music genres.

3. Writers: Langston Hughes
Claude McKay
Musicians: Louis Armstrong
Duke Ellington
Bessie Smith
Josephine Baker

4. I, Too http://www. poetryarchive. org/poetryarchive/singlePoem. do
I too, sing America. I am the darker brother. They send me to eat in the kitchen When company comes, But I laugh, And eat well, And grow strong. Tomorrow, I’ll be at the table When company comes. Nobody’ll dare Say to me, “Eat in the kitchen,” Then. Besides, They’ll see how beautiful I am And be ashamed~~ I too, am America. Langston Hughes

5. Tin Pan Alley
The collection of New York City music publishers and songwriters who dominated the popular music of the U.S.
First time music was available for home entertainment.
Famous musicians included Scott Joplin, George Gershwin, Cole Porter
Music was also used in vaudeville shows
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6. Lost Generation
Group of writers in the 1920’s who shared the belief that they were lost in a greedy, materialist world that lacked moral values, and who often chose to flee to Europe (Paris) because they found it more intellectually stimulating.
People who were disconnected
from the countries values
Famous authors include, Ernest Hemingway, T.S. Eliot, and F. Scott Fitzgerald

7. PROHIBITION – Speakeasies & Bootlegging
A speakeasy, also called a blind pig or blind tiger, is a club that illegally sells alcoholic beverages.
These clubs became popular in the United States during Prohibition
During Prohibition, the sale, manufacture, and transportation (bootlegging) of alcoholic beverages was illegal throughout the United States.
The Stork Club, a famous speakeasy in New York City

8. CRIME INCREASES during Prohibition
Inevitably most of the liquor traffic fell into the hands of gangsters, whose names we still know today. Alphonse "Scarface Al" Capone of Chicago was only the most notorious.
AL CAPONE MUGSHOT
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9. Women’s Roles
Women participated in organized campaigns for suffrage and prohibition
Benefited from increase free time afforded to them by modern conveniences like electricity and appliances (vacuums, refrigerators, washing machines, and toasters).
Took jobs vacated by men in WWI
Doctors, Bankers, Lawyers, Prohibition Officers, Social Workers, Hairdressers

10. FLAPPERS Young unmarried women
Young unmarried women
Smoked cigarettes, drank alcohol, wore make-up, and had shorter hair and hemlines
Women felt more in control – hair and hemlines became shorter.

11. Jazz Music JAZZ extremely popular in speakeasies
New Orleans home of JAZZ
Louis Armstrong, Duke Ellington, Bessie Smith

12. Radio
Radio --- the “wireless”
By 1930, more than 12 million families owned a radio
KDKA first commercial radio station---opened in Pittsburgh, 1920
Provided instant news, entertainment, and advertisements
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13. Literature- reflected pessimism of materialistic American culture
F. Scott Fitzgerald – The Great Gatsby
Illustrated materialism & lack of human concern
Claude McKay – Harlem Shadows
About the racism in our culture
T. S. Eliot – poet
Ernest Hemingway – poet

14. Georgia O’Keefe - Artist
Contrary to many artist of the 1920s, O’Keefe painted natural objects, such as flowers, animal bones, and landscapes.

15. FILM 1927 --- first “talkie” - “The Jazz Singer”
Starring Al Jolson
Charlie Chaplin – most popular film star of 1920’s 0
Walt Disney – Mickey Mouse debuted in 1928
Mickey’s first movie – Steam Boat Willie