1. The Jazz Age
The Culture of the 1920’s

2. Movies
During the 1920’s Many American became acquainted with leisure and pleasure.
Escapism
Equality
Movie stars became icon: Rudolph Valintino

3. Sports Participation increased
Professional Sports such as baseball, boxing and tennis became highly attended.
Babe Ruth, Jim Thorpe, Jack Dempsey
Segregation:
Rube Foster created the Negro Leagues.

4. Charles Lindbergh First man to fly non-stop across the Atlantic
New York to Paris
Spirit of St. Louis
Became national hero

5. “All that Jazz” American began to listen to Jazz.
African American Expression
Freestyle
Blues/Soul
Cross Racial boundaries

6. Literature In the 1920’s American read Lost Generation
F. Scott Fitzgerald and Sinclair Lewis wrote about the have and have not’s

7. The Harlem Renaissance
Black Writers wrote on racism and African Identity
Langston Hughes

8. I, Too, Sing America by Langston Hughes
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.