1. Mass Media schooling is expanded to educate the masses: 4 million students attend high school now, sparked by higher edu standards 4 jobs -new coverage of events began to shape public opinion : Time, Readers Digest -invention of radio became a powerful influence : Most powerful form of Communication, 40% of homes had a radio, 1 st time they could hear the news as it was happening -*During the 20s Development in EDU & mass media had a powerful impact on the nation

2. Cultural Arts -George Gershwin Traditional elements combined with Am/Jazz- America’s new music sound “Rhapsody in Blue” -Georgia O’Keefe: Artist, painted beautiful buildings of cities, the skylines

3. Literature -many writers felt alienated by the 20’s -Sinclair Lewis: 1 st writer to win Nobel Prize in Literature “Babbit” -F. Scott Fitzgerald : Coined the term Jazz Age, portrayed American’s Wealth

4. Literature -Gertrude Stein “Lost Generation” Writers that moved to Europe -Ernest Hemingway “For Whom the Bell Tolls” “Farewell to Arms” - Criticized the War -T.S. Eliot “Wasteland” -Robert Frost “Road not Taken”

5. Heroes -increased leisure time allowed people to pursue pastimes -Babe Ruth : record 60 homeruns, 1927 -Jack Dempsey & Gene Tunney: heavy weight champions, 1927 -Red Grange Harold Edward "Red" Grange : Greatest FB Player ever by ESPN -Notre Dame -Bobby Jones famous golfer

6. Lucky Lindy -trans-Atlantic flight -Charles A. Lindbergh 1 st nonstop SOLO Flight 33 hours -Spirit of St. Louis -American hero -Amelia Earhart : 1 st women to fly solo across the Atlantic in 15hrs

8. Hollywood 1922

9. Motion Pictures -Hollywood emerges as world famous center of US film Industry -Charlie Chaplin: Most famous actor/producer, comic relief “Little Tramp” -Clara Bow “It Girl” #1 Flapper, #1 Silent film star -Rudolph Valentino :”Latin Lover, famous actor -talking films, 1927 “Jazz Singer” 1 st movie w.sound -Mickey Mouse, 1930 Steamboat Willie

10. Motion Pictures -Hollywood emerges -Charlie Chaplin “Little Tramp” -Clara Bow “It Girl” -Rudolph Valentino -talking films, 1927 :”Jazz Singer” -Mickey Mouse, 1930

11. Motion Pictures -Hollywood emerges -Charlie Chaplin “Little Tramp” -Clara Bow “It Girl” -Rudolph Valentino -talking films, 1927 :”Jazz Singer” -Mickey Mouse, 1930

12. African American Goals -literary and artistic movement -celebrated African American culture: “Black is Beautiful” -Black Nationalism -Marcus Garvey -Back to Africa movement -believed A could build a separate society, in Africa to help throw off white colonial oppressors

13. Harlem Renaissance NYC -literary and artistic movement -celebrated African American culture -Langston Hughes :Best known poet, described difficulty of being B in a W world -Claude McKay:poet -Zora Neal Hurston: Novelist & poet, portrayed the lives of poor unschooled Southern Blacks

15. Black Artists -Paul Robeson famous AA Actor -Louis Armstrong: The most influential AM musician in AM JAZZ history, young trumpet player, HOT FIVE -Duke Ellington : Famous for his 10 piece orchestra at the Cotton Club -Bessie Smith : most famous blues singer & outstanding vocalist of the Decade.

18. Links to youtube.com  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zskO9 O3hF78 (Chapmin) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zskO9 O3hF78  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kmfeK UNDDYs&feature=related (LA) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kmfeK UNDDYs&feature=related  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zCrtEr mipXE (Bessie)\ http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zCrtEr mipXE  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J6uzf_ z_OXg (Steamboat willie) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J6uzf_ z_OXg