1. The Roaring Twenties Changing Society Technology Changes Lives
Effects of New Technology
Changing Society
Jazz and the Harlem Renaissance
New Kinds of Entertainment
Early Aviators

2. Essential Questions
Why do people consider Babe Ruth and Charles Lindbergh to be American heroes?
How did the art of Langston Hughes and Louis Armstrong represent cultural changes taking place in American during this era?

3. ….Technology Changes With cars…. Improvements at home….
Travel is far easier
Farmers can access supplies in towns
Families travel for vacation
Paved
roads
Electricity in 70 % of all homes
Appliances make chores easier, less time consuming

4. A Changing Society “Roaring” Twenties Progress was rapid and great.
Many Americans drove cars for the first time.
Women…
Played sports for the first time
Went to college
Worked outside the house

5. ..More advances for women
Flew airplanes
Wore their hair short
Earned the right to vote.

6. Harlem Renaissance - a center for music, art, culture
Literature, Art
Was inspired by many enslaved Africans – a variety of styles eventually turned into jazz.
Writing and paintings were about the “African-American experience”
Langston
Hughes
Zora
Neale Hurston

7. Authors, Artists, Musicians…
Claude McKay, .James Van Der Zee (photog), Richard Wright

8. I, Too Langston Hughes Biography Began writing poetry in 8th grade
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 grown 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 American.
Langston Hughes
Biography
Began writing poetry
in 8th grade
Worked in a restaurant,
left three poems on the
table of a famous poet.
Author helped him
publish
his own work.
Wrote poems, plays,
novels, operas, musicals,
short stories.

9. …more from Hughes Children’s Rhymes By what sends the white kids
I ain’t sent.
I know I can’t
Be President.
What don’t bug
Them white kids
sure bugs me.
We know everybody
Ain’t free.
Lies writeen down
For white folks
Ain’t for us a-tall.
Liberty And Justice—
Huh!—For All?
Still Here
Been scared and battered
My hopes the wind done scattered.
Snow has friz me.
Sun has baked me.
Looks like between ‘em they done
Tried to make me
Stop laughin’, stop lovin’, stop livin’, --
But I don’t care!
I’m still here!

10. New Kinds of Entertainment…
First radio broadcast (“Harding elected President!”) Radio stations broadcast music, movies, shows
Babe Ruth
Hollywood – “talkies”

11. Early Aviators Charles Lindbergh Wright Bros. Amelia Earhart Bessie
(First solo Transatlantic flight)
Amelia Earhart
(first woman to fly solo across the Atlantic)
Wright Bros.
(“first in
flight”)
Bessie
Coleman
(1st Afr.-American
woman to earn
a pilot’s license)