1. The Roaring 1920s THE ROARING 1920S: CULTURES IN CONFLICT

2. The Roaring 1920s:
Conservative: Rural Life Prohibition Red Scare Fundamentalism Ku Klux Klan Nativism Progressive: Urban Life Jazz Culture Socialism Harlem Renaissance New Negro/Woman Immigration

3. Jazz Age Cultural Clash:
“OLD CULTURE” Emphasized: Production Morality Scarcity Religion Idealized the Past Local Rural Culture Substance Hard work Self-Denial “NEW CULTURE” Consumption Decadence Abundance Science Looked to the Future Mass Urban Culture Image Leisure Indulgence

4. FEMINISTS
AND FLAPPERS

5. “Miss Bolshevik Has Come to Town” (1922)
She uses the movie and the lyceum too, And alters text-books to suit her view, She prates propaganda from pulpit and pew, For she's bound to disarm America.
[a critical poem appearing in the War
Department publication “The Socialist-
Pacifists Movement in America is an
Absolutely Fundamental and Integral
Part of International Socialism” ]
The male of the species has a different plan, He uses the bomb and firebrand, And incites class hatred wherever he can, While she's busy disarming America.
Miss Bolshevik has come to town, With a Russian cap and a German gown, In women's clubs she's sure to be found, For she's come to disarm America.
His special stunt is arousing the mob, To expropriate and hate and kill and rob, While she's working on her political job, AWAKE! AROUSE!! AMERICA!!!
She sits in judgment on Capitol Hill, And watches appropriation bills, And without her O.K. it passes--Nil, For she's there to disarm America.
[see page 25]

6. THE NEW WOMAN:
Unconventional
Assertive
Liberated
Educated
Outlandish
Self-centered
Fun-loving
Independent
Risk Takers

7. WHO WAS THE QUEEN OF AMERICA’S NEW WOMEN?
ALICE PAUL
MARGARET SANGER
MARY MACLANE

8. Gibson Girl “Pin-Ups” at the Beach

9. Evelyn Nesbit
Louise Brooks

10. To bob or not to bob?
Blind Alfred Reid (center)
Mary Garden