1. RELIGIOUS FUNDAMENTALISM SCOPES TRIAL – EVOLUTION VS. CREATION – SCIENCE VS. RELIGION TECHNOLOGICAL INNOVATION SPURRED SOCIAL TENSIONS POST WAR PROTESTANS FACED EXAPNDING ROMAN CATHOLIC & JEWISH POPULATIONS TN LAW CHALLENGED BY ACLU DARROW DEFENSE & BRYAN PROSECUTION VICTORY FOR GOVERNMENT HOLLOW BRYAN DIES SHORTLY SOON AFTER REVERSED ON TECHNICALITY

2. DONT JUDGE A BOOK BY ITS COVER

3. THE ROARING 20S CULTURAL LIBERATION DISAFFECTED VIEW OF MANY POST VERSAILLES FAILURE LOST GENERATION OF WRITERS: S. LEWIS (BABBIT & MAIN STREET), T.S. ELLIOT (THE WASTELAND) WM. FAULKNER (THE SOUND & THE FURY) ESCAPE CONSPIRACY AGAINST THE INDIVIDUAL CASUTIC PROBING OF SMALL TOWN LIFE, REJECT TRADITION (e.e.cummings) LITERATURE GREATEST CULTURAL ADVANCE BOTH BLACK & WHITE

4. THE HARLEM RENAISSANCE PRIDE IN CULTURE, HERITAGE HUGE OUTPOURING OF LITERATURE LANGSTON HUGHES, ZORA NEAL HURSTON MUSICAL GENIUS – LOUIE ARMSTRONG & OTHERS JAZZ MUSIC – HOPED TO BRIDGE GAP BETWEEN RACES BUT DIDNT; IMPROVISATION, BREAK W/ TRADITIONAL MUSIC MARCUS GARVEY & BACK TO AFRICA MOVEMENT – FAILURE OVERALL WHEN BLACK STAR LINE BANKRUPT BUT SUCCESS WITH BLACK NURSES OF THE RED CROSS NOT PAN-AFRICAN MOVEMENT MANY CONCERNED W/ ECONOMIC STABILITY BOTH BLACK & WHITE

5. FILM, RADIO, ARCHITECTURE

6. WHAT GOES UP BOOMING BUSINESS AFTER BRIEF POSTWAR DEPRESSION 1922 FARMERS DONT PARTICIPATE IN GROWTH GROWTH OF CITIES LED TO INCREASED DEMAND FOR GOODS BUSINESS & HOUSEHOLDS RUN ON ELECTRICITY (60%) WWI MENTALITY OF SAVING NOW REPLACED WITH BUY, BUY, BUY CORPORATE CONSOLIDATION, MASS MARKETING, CONSUMER EXPECTATIONS TRANSFORMED SOCIETY MOST IMPORTANT CHARACTERISTIC OF STOCK MARKET WAS SPECULA- TION & BUYING ON MARGIN CONSPICUOUS CONSUMPTION RAMPANT

7. REIGNING IN THE BULL ECONOMY NOT AS SOUND AS IT APPEARS MERGERS LED TO JOB LOSS – THOUSANDS OF COMPANIES DIS- APPEAR GROWTH IN CONSUMER DEBT: $6BILLION BY 1929 FARMERS $273 PER CAPITA WORKERS $681 PER CAPITA WAGE DISPARITY BETWEEN N. FACTORY WORKERS VS. SOUTHERN TRUCKING REPLACING RR NATURAL GAS & PETROLEUM REPLACING COAL RAYON REPLACING COTTON SOUTH REPLACING NORTH AS MFG. CENTER

8. WOMEN IN THE NEW ECONOMIC ORDER FLAPPER – SUBSET OF WOMEN, YOUNG, URBAN, SINGLE – MOST WORKING, WORRYING, WAITING WAGE DISCRIMINATION ERA FAILS 1923 EDUCATION INCREASES BUT NOT REPRESENTED IN THEIR PROFESSION; MED SCHOOL QUOTAS MARGARET SANGER: BIRTH CONTROL ONE OF PROGRESSIVE MOVEMENTS IMPORTANT LEGACIES

9. A – U – T - O 2 nd INDUSTRIAL REVOLUTION – ELECTRICITY NOT STEAM 70% OF INDUSTRIAL POWER ELECTRIC 1913 HENRY FORD PERFECTS THE ASSEMBLY LINE, CARS $300; FOR THE MASSES? ANY COLOR AS LONG AS ITS BLACK! 1930 60% OF AMERICANS OWNED CARS BUT IN 1925 75% BOUGHT ON CREDIT 1927 15 MILLIONTH MODEL T CAME OFF THE LINE IN MICHIGAN CHRYSLER INTRODUCES COLOR & COMPETITION BEGINS 1929 AUTO MFG ACCOUNTED FOR 9% OF ALL MFG. WAGES DRIVE IN MOVIES, CAR DATES, TRIPS TO THE SHORE, HOTELS, MOTELS, HOLIDAY INNS, RESTAURANTS, SERVICE STATIONS; JOBS GROWING EXPONENTIALLY