1. American Culture Changes

2. The Great Migration
-the major relocation of African Americans from the South to the North
-looking for economic opportunity/racial equality
-settled in large cities like NYC, Chicago, Detroit, etc.; still faced discrimination

3. Harlem
-Harlem- neighborhood in Manhattan; official capital of African American culture and activism in the U.S.
-W.E. Du Bois & The Crisis

4. Harlem renaissance
-H.R.- the great African American arts movement that occurred in NYC in the 1920s
-Marcus Garvey & U.N.I.A.

5. Garvey vs. dubois
VS.

6. Harlem renaissance -Writing/Poetry -defiance/resistance to prejudice
-James Weldon Johnson, Claude McKay
-Art
-experiences of African Americans
-William Johnson, Aaron Douglas
-Performers
Paul Robeson

10. Jazz & Blues Music -Jazz
“If you have ask what it is you’ll never know”
-Louis Armstrong
-Bessie Smith
-George Gershwin

11. Mass Entertainment
-Radio
-Movies

14. New Heroes -Thanks to mass entertainment
-movie stars, sports stars, & “Lucky Lindy”

15. Clara Bow
Mary Pickford
Louise Brooks

16. Chaplin
Valentino
Fairbanks

17. Pilots
-Charles Lindbergh
-Amelia Everhart

18. Sports Heroes
-p.664

20. Literature -about the rich and famous -examined 1920s values
-focused on the middle class
-focused on 1920s pop culture
-WWI Influence