2. Roaring Twenties
The Jazz Age

3. Vocab List 19 -Anarchist -Speakeasy -Evolution
-Bohemian -Mass Media -Jazz
-Blues

4. I. Background A) Previous 3 classes 1) Survived horrific war
2) Strikes → Anti-communism → Nativist
2) Americans have disposable income $$$
3) Cars, Planes & new products
B) Popular Culture
1) Movie Theaters → Celebrities
2) Radio → Boxing & Baseball popular
3) We have more time for entertainment with labor saving home products (washing machine etc)

5. II. Nativism is back
A) Nativism - belief that immigrants threatened American way of life.
Prejudice against Germans and Communists
Crime blamed on immigrants (jews & catholics)
B) Ku Klux Klan - now targets jews, catholics and tries to keep america white and protestant.
3 million members

7. III. Protestant Movements
A) Fundamentalist - takes Christian bible literally
Creationist - God created man.
Hated changing role of women & consumer culture
B) Prohibition - 18th Amendment - no more alcohol sales
Worst amendment ever -- eventually repealed 13 years later (21st Amendment)
Created Organized Crime by smuggling liquor
Al Capone - Mob boss, paid off law enforcement to turn blind eye to his empire. Died of syphilis.

8. IIIb. Flappers Why were Fundamentalist so mad? Flappers
Young rebellious women began keeping hair and skirts short + smoke/drank in public + used birth control + used make up and fashion

9. IV. Lost Generation of Writers
F. Scott Fitzgerald - coined term “Jazz Age”
Wrote Great Gatsby
Wrote the Case of Benjamin Button - Old to Young
Criticized upper classes
Ernest Hemingway - Fought in WW1
For Whom the Bell Tolls - about Spanish Civil War
The Old Man and the Sea - Cuban Fisherman
A Farewell to Arms - about WW1

10. Ernest Hemingway

11. V. African American Influence
A) Great Migration - thousands move north for better work
B) Harlem Renaissance - artistic development, racial pride, and political organization of African Americans
Rejected stereotypes and prejudice
Fought back
C) Politics
Fought against discrimination, segregation and lynching
Black Nationalism - power through education, pride and unity.

12. Duke Ellington Video

13. VI. Notable African Americans
Langston Hughes - Leader of Harlem Renaissance
Claude McKay - Home to Harlem, famous writer
W.E.B Du Bois - Harvard Educated, Co-Founder of NAACP, fought racism
Marcus Garvey - Bad ass, promoted Negro nationalism, the back-to-Africa movement and FBI had him deported back to Jamaica
Duke Ellington - biggest name in Jazz, played at Cotton Club
Zora Neale Hurston - Their Eyes Were Watching God

14. Garveys Black Star Line