Cultural Conflicts of the 1920s
Prohibition: 18th Amendment Goals: Eliminate drunkenness Domestic Abuse Get rid of saloons Prevent Absenteeism
Prohibition Problems Bootlegging Selling booze illegally Speakeasies Illegal Bars Stats: Mass. before 1,000 bars Boston after 4,000 bars
Prohibition Problems Organized Crime Bootlegging = $$$ Gangs fight for territory Racketeering Bribing police to ignore illegal activities then made businesses pay for protection
Prohibition Problems Al Capone Most notorious gangster of 1920s Chicago St. Valentine’s Day Massacre Arrested for tax evasion
The “Red Scare”: Fear of Foreigners Russian Revolution Sacco & Vanzetti J. Edgar Hoover A. Mitchell Palmer
Issues of Religion Fundamentalism Traditional Christian ideas about Jesus God inspired Bible, literally true Billy Sunday
Issues of Religion Scopes Trial John T. Scopes teaches evolution William Jennings Bryan vs. Clarence Darrow Mass Media Clash of values
Roles Change: Women / Education 19 th Amendment Flappers Increase in high school and college enrollment.
Racial Tensions Violence against Blacks 1919, “Red Summer” Race Riots Chicago (Worst) Omaha Tulsa Washington D.C. Lynching Continue
Omaha Race Riot of 1919
Racial Tensions Revival of the KKK Fuel by fear of foreigners Against all “Un- American” Membership 1922: 100, : 4 million 1927: Declines
Racial Tensions Fighting Discrimination NAACP Anti-Lynching Laws Voting Rights The Garvey Movement Marcus Garvey UNIA
Progress??? Harlem Renaissance Music / Art / Literature Based out of Harlem The Great Migration Louis Armstrong Besse Smith Langston Hughes Duke Ellington
People and things we know 1920’s Automobile Radio Washing Machine Refrigerator Vacuum Cleaner Sewing Machine Sound Movies Phonograph Shopping Malls - Credit Babe Ruth “Rube” Foster G. Ederle C. Lindbergh F. Scott Fitzgerald E. Hemmingway J. Dempsey Gene Tunney Bobby Jones