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Education & Popular Culture

Schools

• Enrollment went from 1 million to 4 million between 1914-1926

• Many of the students spoke no English

Radio

• By 1930, 40% of Americans had radios• In 1929, Americans spent 850 million on

radios• NBC was the first radio network, CBS

was the second• Americans became more in tune with

national and world news

Radios of the 20’s

Radios of the 1920’s

Sports Heroes

• Babe Ruth - pudgy baseball star, hard-drinking womanizing, hit 60 HRs in 1927

• Jack Dempsey - boxing star of the 20’s• Red Grange - college football star for

Illinois• Notre Dame - had five undefeated

seasons in the 1920’s

Babe Ruth

Notre Dame

Charles Lindbergh

• Made the first solo flight across the Atlantic

• Paid $25,000• Later his son was kidnapped and killed

Movies

• Became popular at the time with talkies

King Kong

Writers

• Called the “Lost Generation”• Many moved to Paris because they

thought America uninteresting• Criticized churches, small towns, the

middle class, and politicians