Post on 13-Jan-2016
RURAL VS. URBAN
Scope’s Trial - “monkey trial”Evolution or Science??
PROHIBITION – 18th Amendmentthanks to the WCTU
No producing, making or selling of alcoholic beverages1920-1933
Al Capone-Bootlegger & Gangster
21st AmendmentProhibition
Created a huge increase in crime
1933 – 21st Amendmentis passed
finally the 18th Amendment is repealed.
SPEAKEASIES& the Charleston click photo below
Carrie Chapman Catt
NAWSA
National American Woman Suffrage Association President
Alice Paul & Lucy Burns
Created the NWP
--National Women’s Party
Jailed and beat
Their movement catapulted women’s suffrage to the forefront!
Women’s Suffrage 19th Amendment
Flappers
MARGARET SANGER
Created the first
Birth Control Clinic
Jailed many times.
Click photo for video
Jeanette Rankin
First female
to become a
House of Representatives member.
• From Montana
Charles Lindberg
• Click above photo
Harlem Renaissance
The Harlem Renaissance occurred during the 1920’s in Harlem, a part of NYC, New York.
It included, many famous African American singers, artists, poets, writers, musicians, and entertainers.
Louis ArmstrongClick on image below
W.E.B. DuBoisHe held 4 Degrees
Professor of Economics and History at University of Atlanta
1909 he helped found the National Associationfor the Advancement ofColored People
(NAACP)
Claude McKay(1889– May 22, 1948)
was a Jamaican writer and poet.
Marcus Garvey
Created the
UNIA Movement(Universal Negro
Improvement Association)
“Black is Beautiful”
James Weldon Johnson
POET & LAWYER
Tries to get
Anti-Lynching Laws passed
Ida B. Wells-Barnett
Writer and editor
who crusaded
to stop
Lynching
Langston Hughes
American poet, novelist, playwright, short story writer, and columnist.
Bessie Smith
“EMPRESS of the BLUES”
Click on photo to the right.
Click on photoTo the rightFor Norah Jones song on Bessie Smith
SCOTT JOPLIN
Composer of:
“The Entertainer”
“The Maple Leaf Rag”
Click on photo to right
Ballyhoo
Insignificant events
blown way out of proportion
by the media!
AthleticsJack Dempsey
Knute Rockne
Red Grange
BABE RUTH
Charlie Chaplin
Click photo to the right
Al JOLSONClick photo to left
MaterialismF. Scott Fitzgerald
The GREAT GATSBY
ERNEST HEMINGWAYA Farewell to Arms
Literature
T.S. Elliot The Waste Land Sinclair Lewis
Talkies
From Silent film to
Movies with sound!
The Cotton Club• Click photo to the left
1920’s New Inventions
Refrigerators Electric irons Radios
Washing Machines automobiles Sweepers