1. Education and Popular Culture in the 20s
How do schools & mass media shape the Jazz Age?

2. Education on the rise
Public school enrollment increases by 2.5 million students in the 1920s
● Student dress, slang & behavior become “norm” for pop culture in the 1920s

3. 2) Dance Marathons Fads of the Roaring 20s 1) Flagpole sitting
5) The Charleston P U Z Z L E S
3) Barnstormers
4) Games S W O R D

4. Mass Media
● Newspaper & magazine circulation increases literacy, spread of pop culture
● Radio: allows people to hear live sporting events, news, music & entertainment

5. Sports Heroes Baseball: Babe Ruth, Lou Gehrig & Andrew “Rube” Foster
Helen Willis dominated women’s tennis
Jack Dempsey dominates boxing

6. Entertainment of the 1920s
● Charlie Chaplain: most famous start of silent movie era
● : 1st movie with sound, “ The Jazz Singer” (Al Jolson)
● : First animated film w/ sound “Steamboat Willie”
● Greta Garbo was famous silent start who moved to “talkies”

7. Celebrities in the Arts
Coco Chanel was a famous fashion designer
George Gershwin was a classic theatre composer of 1920s
Georgia O’ Keefe was a famous 1920s large format artist

8. Famous American Writers
● Sinclair Lewis = 1st American to
win the Nobel Prize in literature
● F. Scott Fitzgerald writes Great Gatsby (emptiness of wealth) & coined the term “jazz age”
● Ernest Hemingway =
Criticizes the glorification of war, he and Fitzgerald part of “Lost Generation”

9. Aviation Heroes Charles Lindbergh
1st person to fly solo non-stop across the Atlantic Ocean (1927) NY-Paris
Becomes instant celebrity/first airline “Pan-Am” is born
Amelia Earhart
1st woman to cross Atlantic (1928, 1932)
1st person to fly from HI to CA (1935)
Tries to circumnavigate the globe but plane disappears (1937)

10. 1920s Culture Video Questions
What is revolutionary about Henry Ford’s cars?
How did customers learn to drive?
How did cars change American culture?
What development was built for celebrities?