1920s

1
1920s

• Popular Culture The Harlem Renaissance

2
The Twenties Woman

• Flappers
• Emancipated young women
• Embraced new fashions urban attitudes
• Close fitting hats, waist less dresses
• Clip hair short in boyish bobs
• Smoking, drinking, liberal dances (fox trot)

3
Zelda Sayre Fitzgerald

• Epitomize the flapper
• Montgomery,Al native
• Wife of F. Scott Fitzgerald
• Diagnosed as schizophrenic

4
Sexual Revolution

• Casual dating became more prevalent
• More liberal movies, novels, dances, and even the
  automobile all combined to contribute to more
  loosened morals
  
• Double standards still existed, however

5
Margaret Sanger

• New York nurse
• She pushed for the legalized spread of
  information about birth control

6
Schools

• High School Enrollment went from 1 million in
  1914 to 4 million by 1926
  
• Prosperous times
• Higher Education standards
• Accommodation of large influx of immigrants

7
Mass Media

• Mass Media print broadcast methods of
  communicating info to large numbers of people
  
• Movies 4th largest industry in 1920s
• Jazz Singer (1st film with sound, 1927)
• Newspapers increased in size numbers
• Radio a new medium, appeared in 1920

8
Heroes of the 1920s

• Babe Ruth
• Jack Dempsey
• Red Grange
• Knute Rockne
• Gertrude Ederle
• Amelia Earhart
• Charles Lindbergh

9
Jazz Spirited Literature

• Eugene ONeill
• Sinclair Lewis
• F. Scott Fitzgerald
• Willa Cather
• Edna St. Vincent Millay
• Ernest Hemingway
• (Lost Generation)

10
Jazz Spirited Painters

• Edward Hopper
• Rockwell Kent
• Georgia OKeefe
• (Cow's Skull - Red, White and Blue 1930)

11
The Harlem Renaissance

• Cultural and Political phenomenon
• Largest African American community, developed in
  Harlem, New York
  
• Famous for concentration of talented actors,
  artist, musicians, and writers
  
• Facilitated by the Great Migration
• Urban riots

12
African American Goals

• NAACP
• James Weldon Johnson
• Marcus Garvey
• Universal Negro Improvement Assoc.

13
African American Writers

• Claude McKay
• Langston Hughes
• Zora Neal Hurston
• Countee Cullen
• Jean Toomer
• Ralph Ellison

14
African American Performers

• Jazz New Orleans
• Louis Armstrong
• W.C. Handy
• Duke Ellington
• Bessie Smith