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• FLAPPERS

• WOMEN

• REBELLIOUS ENERGENTIC–FUN-LOVING AND BOLD

–ALL DESCRIPITIONS OF A FLAPPER

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• Small representation of all women

• Image had wide spread influence

• Proper women did not drink in public

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• Anything stronger than wine

• Did not smoke in public

• Women smokers increased

• Outraged parents and the public

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• 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

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• Demographics how statistics are used to measure population tendencies

• Farmers were stressed

• Over production lowered prices

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• Rural migration to cities

• Promise of higher wages

• Immigration

• Limited numbers of those who could enter

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• Limitations did not cover Americas

• Used migrant workers from Mexico

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• Civil Rights

• Jin Crow Laws

• Plessy v Ferguson

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• Job opportunities in North better than South but were limited

• Whites resented African Americans

• Take jobs lower wages

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• Suburbs

• Began growth of Suburbs–Trolleys trains and busses

–Allowed work force to live away from city proper

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• Heroes• Lucky Lindy• First to fly across Atlantic solo• Became National hero• Remained modest thus

increasing popularity

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• Amelia Earhart

• first woman to fly solo across Atlantic

• First successful flight from Hawaii to California

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• Sport Heroes

• Negro Leagues

• Baseball–Josh Gibson

–Satchel Paige

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• Babe Ruth

• “Sultan of Swat” House that

Ruth built Yankee Stadium

Jack Dempsey

• Jim Thorpe

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• Mass Media

• Hollywood developed

• Vast differences of scenery deserts, snow capped mountains all help area grow

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• Warm climate and sun needed to film

• “Talkies” sound of voices added to film

• Exploded in popularity

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• 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

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• 80 million tickets were sold each week for movies

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• Magazines and Newspapers

• More readers less independent newspapers

• Tabloids instead of Hard News

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• Magazines

• Saturday Evening Post

• Readers Digest

• Time

• Ladies Home Journal

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• Radio recorded music and sports scores

• KDKA first commercial radio station

• Advertising began as an afterthought

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• NBC became the country wide broadcasting company others soon followed

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• Jazz Age

• African American music of the south

• Radio popularized Jazz

Jazz clubs allowed musicians to play

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• Louis Armstrong

• Duke Ellington

• Benny Goodman

• Charleston became popular

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• Jazz sprung Off shoots • George Gershwin• “Rhapsody in Blue”• Combination of symphonic and

jazz

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• Cotton Club

• Saratoga Club

• Connie’s Inn

• Black Artists performed for mainly white audiences

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• Writers

• Lost Generation

• Ernest Hemmingway

• F Scot Fitzgerald

• Most settled in Paris

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• Harlem Renaissance–Grew from 50,000 to 200,000 in

16 years

–Literature and music of African Americans

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• NAACP

• James Weldon Johnson

• Alain Locke The New Negro –African American Culture

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• Langston Hughes

• Joys and difficulties of being American and black

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• Moonshiners

• Made illegal alcohol from grain

• Shipped from Ireland Canada

• Speedboats delivered liquor faster than Coast Guard ships

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• Souped up cars out ran government agents

• Early beginnings of NASCAR

• Speakeasies

• Illegal clubs

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• More speakeasies than legal bars

• Needed membership card

• Or knew guard at the door

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• Spawned organized crime

• Gang wars

• Successful bootlegging operations led to expansion

• Gambling prostitution

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• Organized Crime

• Al Capone

• Racketeers

• Made businesses pay “protection money”

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• Risked violence if they did not pay

• Able to pay off judges and police and politicians

• And judges

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• FBI had trouble capturing and convicting Capone

• Judges and politicians on Capone’s payroll difficult to get conviction on murder and bootlegging

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• Finally convicted on White Collar crime not violent crime

• Income Tax evasion landed Capone in jail

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• Fundamentalism

• Bible contained no contradictions or errors

• Supported Bible is literally true

• Every story actually took place as written

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• Billy Sunday prominent preacher

• Prominent figure in Prohibition movement

• Aimee Semple McPherson

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• Master of theatrics

• Sister Aimee great fund raiser used radio to broaden her religious following

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• Scopes Trial

• Evolution vs. Fundamentalist

• Tennessee passed

• Illegal to teach Evolution

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• John T. Scopes challenged law

• Trial combatants

• William Jennings Bryan

• Clarence Darrow

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• First trial covered by radio

• Simple case law was broken but really came down to modern beliefs vs. traditional beliefs.

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Dramatic confrontation

Darrow against Bryan

Fundamentalist belied in literal interpretation of Bible

Darrow interrogation of Bryan

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• Civil Rights

• Riots

• 25 cities summer of 1919

• Chicago hard hit

• Rock fight

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• 17 year old African American was struck and killed while swimming

• Several days of rioting broke out

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• 23 dead African Americans

• 15 Whites

• Destruction caused hundreds homeless

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• Revival of KKK

• Colonel William J. Simmons revived

• Not only in South

• Indiana had lad the largest membership

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• 4 million members

• African Americans, Catholics, Jews, Immigrants, all were victims

• 1925 leader of Indiana Klan

• Was sent to prison

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• Assaulting a young girl who later poisoned herself

• National uproar police stepped up action

• Activity diminished again

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• Garvey Movement

• Wanted Motherland Africa

• Place where blacks could live in peace

• Organized business collected 10 million dollars

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• Steep in corruption and mismanagement

• Garvey sent to jail

• Became the inspiration to black pride movements