Post-war fear of communism
automated assembly, mass production, higher wages = happy worker
Sacco-Vanzetti
King Kleagle, Imperial Wizard, Grand Goblin
Prohibition
Volstead Act
Al Capone
on the bootleggers payroll
education through doing/real life
John Scopes
Home Run champion in NY
motor city capital of the world
started the automobile industry
big time advertising executive
most popular car in the 1920s
2% of 1890 census allowed, no japanese
3% of 1910 census allowed
defended immigrants customs
wanted cross fertilization of races
criminal syndicalism laws
open shop, no union workforces
ransom for selling alcohol
spirit of st. louis pilot
Charles Lindburgh
joy rides, family vacations, were parts of new use of
famous 1920s radio show
first talking picture
racist movie about KKK
racist founder of Planned Parenthood
Alice Paul
Flappers
new popular 1920s music
dating, necking, petters, flappers, one piece bathing suits
founder of the United Negro Improvement Association
supported a back to Africa movement
designed geometric buildings in a modernist style
wrote the Great Gatsby
writer for American Murcury
wrote A Farewell to Arms
wrote As I Lay Dying
flowering of black culture
popularized Scat
school of improvisation
famous black poet
famous theatre in NY
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