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ROARING TWENTIES. ROARING TWENTIES. FLAPPERS WOMEN REBELLIOUS ENERGENTIC FUN-LOVING AND BOLD ALL DESCRIPITIONS OF A FLAPPER. ROARING TWENTIES. Small representation of all women Image had wide spread influence Proper women did not drink in public. ROARING TWENTIES.
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ROARING TWENTIES • FLAPPERS • WOMEN • REBELLIOUS ENERGENTIC • FUN-LOVING AND BOLD • ALL DESCRIPITIONS OF A FLAPPER
ROARING TWENTIES • Small representation of all women • Image had wide spread influence • Proper women did not drink in public
ROARING TWENTIES • Anything stronger than wine • Did not smoke in public • Women smokers increased • Outraged parents and the public
ROARING TWENTIES • Women held lesser positions in work force than males • Gained right to vote but not all participated • Rural transportation was issue • Child rearing no one to watch
ROARING TWENTIES • Demographics how statistics are used to measure population tendencies • Farmers were stressed • Over production lowered prices
ROARING TWENTIES • Rural migration to cities • Promise of higher wages • Immigration • Limited numbers of those who could enter
ROARING TWENTIES • Limitations did not cover Americas • Used migrant workers from Mexico
ROARING TWENTIES • Civil Rights • Jin Crow Laws • Plessy v Ferguson
ROARING TWENTIES • Job opportunities in North better than South but were limited • Whites resented African Americans • Take jobs lower wages
ROARING TWENTIES • Suburbs • Began growth of Suburbs • Trolleys trains and busses • Allowed work force to live away from city proper
ROARING TWENTIES • Heroes • Lucky Lindy • First to fly across Atlantic solo • Became National hero • Remained modest thus increasing popularity
ROARING TWENTIES • Amelia Earhart • first woman to fly solo across Atlantic • First successful flight from Hawaii to California
ROARING TWENTIES • Sport Heroes • Negro Leagues • Baseball • Josh Gibson • Satchel Paige
ROARING TWENTIES • Babe Ruth • “Sultan of Swat” House that Ruth built Yankee Stadium Jack Dempsey • Jim Thorpe
ROARING TWENTIES • Mass Media • Hollywood developed • Vast differences of scenery deserts, snow capped mountains all help area grow
ROARING TWENTIES • Warm climate and sun needed to film • “Talkies” sound of voices added to film • Exploded in popularity
ROARING TWENTIES • Theaters rose from 5,00 in 1910 to 22,500 in 1930 • Elaborate design ornate lobbies balconies place to go • 125,000 million people in the United States
ROARING TWENTIES • 80 million tickets were sold each week for movies
ROARING TWENTIES • Magazines and Newspapers • More readers less independent newspapers • Tabloids instead of Hard News
ROARING TWENTIES • Magazines • Saturday Evening Post • Readers Digest • Time • Ladies Home Journal
ROARING TWENTIES • Radio recorded music and sports scores • KDKA first commercial radio station • Advertising began as an afterthought
ROARING TWENTIES • NBC became the country wide broadcasting company others soon followed
ROARING TWENTIES • Jazz Age • African American music of the south • Radio popularized Jazz Jazz clubs allowed musicians to play
ROARING TWENTIES • Louis Armstrong • Duke Ellington • Benny Goodman • Charleston became popular
ROARING TWENTIES • Jazz sprung Off shoots • George Gershwin • “Rhapsody in Blue” • Combination of symphonic and jazz
ROARING TWENTIES • Cotton Club • Saratoga Club • Connie’s Inn • Black Artists performed for mainly white audiences
ROARING TWENTIES • Writers • Lost Generation • Ernest Hemmingway • F Scot Fitzgerald • Most settled in Paris
ROARING TWENTIES • Harlem Renaissance • Grew from 50,000 to 200,000 in 16 years • Literature and music of African Americans
ROARING TWENTIES • NAACP • James Weldon Johnson • Alain Locke The New Negro • African American Culture
ROARING TWENTIES • Langston Hughes • Joys and difficulties of being American and black
ROARING TWENTIES • Moonshiners • Made illegal alcohol from grain • Shipped from Ireland Canada • Speedboats delivered liquor faster than Coast Guard ships
ROARING TWENTIES • Souped up cars out ran government agents • Early beginnings of NASCAR • Speakeasies • Illegal clubs
ROARING TWENTIES • More speakeasies than legal bars • Needed membership card • Or knew guard at the door
ROARING TWENTIES • Spawned organized crime • Gang wars • Successful bootlegging operations led to expansion • Gambling prostitution
ROARING TWENTIES • Organized Crime • Al Capone • Racketeers • Made businesses pay “protection money”
ROARING TWENTIES • Risked violence if they did not pay • Able to pay off judges and police and politicians • And judges
ROARING TWENTIES • FBI had trouble capturing and convicting Capone • Judges and politicians on Capone’s payroll difficult to get conviction on murder and bootlegging
ROARING TWENTIES • Finally convicted on White Collar crime not violent crime • Income Tax evasion landed Capone in jail
ROARING TWENTIES • Fundamentalism • Bible contained no contradictions or errors • Supported Bible is literally true • Every story actually took place as written
ROARING TWENTIES • Billy Sunday prominent preacher • Prominent figure in Prohibition movement • Aimee Semple McPherson
ROARING TWENTIES • Master of theatrics • Sister Aimee great fund raiser used radio to broaden her religious following
ROARING TWENTIES • Scopes Trial • Evolution vs. Fundamentalist • Tennessee passed • Illegal to teach Evolution
ROARING TWENTIES • John T. Scopes challenged law • Trial combatants • William Jennings Bryan • Clarence Darrow
ROARING TWENTIES • First trial covered by radio • Simple case law was broken but really came down to modern beliefs vs. traditional beliefs.
ROARING TWENTIES Dramatic confrontation Darrow against Bryan Fundamentalist belied in literal interpretation of Bible Darrow interrogation of Bryan
ROARING TWENTIES • Civil Rights • Riots • 25 cities summer of 1919 • Chicago hard hit • Rock fight
ROARING TWENTIES • 17 year old African American was struck and killed while swimming • Several days of rioting broke out
ROARING TWENTIES • 23 dead African Americans • 15 Whites • Destruction caused hundreds homeless
ROARING TWENTIES • Revival of KKK • Colonel William J. Simmons revived • Not only in South • Indiana had lad the largest membership