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- 192 0s McKayla Sanders Victoria Davis Porsche Kemp
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- Pop Culture Music Flapper Automobiles Movies Radio Speakeasies
Sports Aviation
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- National and International Headlines 19 th Amendment
Prohibition Sacco and Vanzetti 1922 Flapper emerges 1924 Late night
work outlawed Change of fashion Al Capone Birth Control
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- Literature James Weldon Johnson Countee Cullen Zora Neale
Hurston Jean Toomer Claude McKay Langston Hughes Harlem became the
source of inspiration. Phyllis Wheatly, Paul Lawrence Dunbar, and
Frederick Douglas began to pave the way for African American
writers to be published. Harlem became the backdrop for many
stories and poetry.
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- Music Jazz Nightclubs and speakeasies Big bands Negro
Spirituals Radio and phonograph recordings carried the music across
America. Bessie Smith- Empress of Blues Duke Ellington- Pianist and
Bandleader Louis Armstrong- Trumpeter Fletcher Henderson- Started
the first big band
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- Entertainment The 1920s were known as the Decade of
Entertainment. Jazz music Broadway Radio Movies Vaudeville
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- Fashion Bobbed hair Showing more skin Short dresses Make-up
Fishnets Smoking becomes fashionable in 1925. Home hair color in 10
different colors becomes popular in 1929.
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- National Disasters The Great Flood of 1927- Mississippi River
pours out into Arkansas Great Lakes, 100 people died. 1929 - St.
Valentine's Day Massacre- On the morning of St. Valentine's Day in
1929, seven men were gunned down in cold blood in a garage in
Chicago. The massacre, orchestrated by Al Capone, shocked the
nation by its brutality and made Capone a national celebrity.
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- Transportati on Automobiles Airplanes Trains Ocean liners
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- Communicat ion Radio Newspaper Advertising Magazines
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- Scientific Inventions/Technolo gy Traffic Light Hair Dryer Lie
Detector Frozen Food Penicillin Rocket Car with combustion Band
Aids
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- Sports News 1920s known as The Golden Age of Sports. February
12, 1920, National Negro Baseball League is founded. September 28,
1920 eight Chicago White Sox players are charged with throwing the
1919 World Series in what becomes known as the Black Sox Scandal.
They are eventually banned from the game for life. September 29,
1920 New York Yankee Babe Ruth breaks his own single- season home
run record with 54 home runs. 1922- The American Professional
Football Association changes its name to the National Football
League (NFL). January 1, 1927- The Rose Bowl football game is
broadcast coast-to-coast on the radio.
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- Changing Roles of Individuals and Families Women in the 1920s
finally received the right to vote, changing the roles given in the
family.
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- Music Photo Story
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- Fashion Photo Story
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- Pop Culture Photo Story
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- Dance Marathon Movie