13 sec. 3 Education & Popular Culture

Schools Enrollment went from 1 million to 4 million between 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