Social Changes of the 1920

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Social Changes of the 1920s

• Womens Roles
• Flappers influence womens fashion and behavior
• More Women enter the work force
• Womens vote gradually influences politics
• Jeannette Rankin

2

• Demographics
• More people move from rural to urban areas
• Rural-urban economic gap widens
• Morals and manners differ between rural and urban
  areas
• African Americans migrate north
• Suburbs grow

3

• Lifestyles
• Buses begin to replace trolleys
• Automobiles increase peoples mobility
• Interest in spectator sports increases

4
National Heroes are Born

• Lucky Lindy Charles Lindbergh
• Amelia Earhart
• Jack Dempsey
• Jim Thorpe
• Babe Ruth
• Gertrude Ederle

5
Mass Media

• Print or broadcast methods of communicating
  information to large numbers of people
• Daily Newspapers, 1920-1929, 42 increase in
  circulation (39,426,000 a day)
• Motion Pictures, 1922-1929, 100 increase in
  number of people attending (80 million per week)
• Radios, 1922-1929, 16,983 increase in number of
  households with radios (10,250,000)

6
Mass Media

• Led to a shared American culture across the
  country
• Our nation became less regionalized
• The Jazz Age began as music was broadcast over
  the radio

7
Duke Ellington
8
Louis Armstrong
9
George Gershwin
10
Benny Goodman
11
Jelly Roll Martin
12
Harlem Renaissance

• African American literary awakening of the 1920s.
• Harlem, NY
• James Weldon Johnson
• Alain Locke
• Zora Neale Hurston
• Claude McKay
• Countee Cullen
• Langston Hughes

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I, Too, 1926

• 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.
• - Langston Hughes

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• 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.