The Jazz Age

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.