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1 The 1920s The Economy, Mass Production, Appliances, Consumer Culture, Entertainment, Advertising, and the Black Experience

2 Unprecedented Economic Growth
BOOMING Economy Unprecedented Economic Growth

3 But the GAP widened

4 Between the HAVES Photo by cadfael1979

5 And the HAVE NOTS Photo by Rob!

6 THE LOSERS Farmers Laborers by United Nations Photo by Tymtoi

7 Henry Ford’s Assembly Line
More efficient (cheaper) production Less need for skilled laborers

8 The Decade of the Automobile
Ford Model T

9 Radios & Refrigerators
Mass Production Radios & Refrigerators

10 Electrical Appliances

11 http://tothetwenties. blogspot

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13 Installment Plan

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15 Buy NOW Pay LATER

16 DEBT A Big Problem

17 African Americans Leave the South
The Great Migration African Americans Leave the South

18 Black % of Population 1900 Black = % Brown = % Red = % Orange = % Light orange = % Gray = 0.99% or less

19 DESTINATION: Northern Cities
CLICK for more paintings from Jacob Lawrence’s Migration Series

20 Employment Opportunities
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21 ESCAPE Lynching CLICK for more paintings from Jacob Lawrence’s Migration Series

22 Black % of Population 1900 Black = % Brown = % Red = % Orange = % Light orange = % Gray = 0.99% or less

23 Black % of Population 1990 Black = % Brown = % Red = % Orange = % Light orange = % Gray = 0.99% or less

24 JAZZ Black music popular with white audiences

25 JAZZ The prevalence of Jazz on the radio broke down a cultural barrier.

26 But Racial stereotypes still persisted.
The “Gold Dust Twins” had a radio show, too!

27 The Most SUCCESSFUL Silent Film EVER

28 Harlem Renaissance African American intellectual movement
Literature, Poetry, Art, etc. Langston Hughes novelist and poet


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