1. Roaring Twenties I.Victorianism II.Cultural Revolution A.Leisure B.Sex III.The Last Gasp of Moral Reform A.Prohibition B.Regulating Sexuality C.Censorship D.Klan IV.Resistance A.The Speakeasy B.The Gay World C.Family Planning V.Modernism Triumphant? A.Criminal Justice BRepeal B.Birth Control C.Sexuality

2. Victorianism Natalism “Race suicide” Anthony Comstock arrests abortionist Madame Restell

3. Cultural Revolution Louise Brooks Rudy Valentino Leisure Sex Mae West

4. Prohibition 18 th Amendment Volstead Acts Colorado liquor bust, 1920

5. Regulating Sexuality Obscenity –Margaret Sanger What Every Woman Should Know (1921) Prostitution –Mann Act (1915) Jack Johnson Homosexuality –Sodomy laws

6. Censorship Movie censor, Will Hays Roscoe “Fatty” Arbuckle

7. The Revived Klan 4M members (1924) –Mostly in the North 80,000 in NYS –Politics Govs. of TX, IN, OR Mayors of Atlanta, Indianapolis, Denver Reaction to: –Sexual liberation –Illegal alcohol –New diversity Targets –Blacks, Catholics, Jews, Immigrants, Unions

8. Speakeasy Americans continue drinking illegally Underground culture –Integrated Gender Race Sexuality Speakeasy, 1920

9. The Gay World Streets –“Wolves” & “Fairies” Science –“Inverts” & “perverts”

10. Family Planning Despite laws barring access to contraceptives, American fertility rates drop to historically low levels in the 1920s and 1930s.

11. Modernism Triumphant? Leopold, Loeb, & Darrow

12. Shifting Restrictions Repeal of Prohibition Loosen laws controlling birth control information The re-segregation of homosexuality Drag queen, NYC, 1940