1. The Jazz Age and the KKK

2. Klan Resurgence > Timeline of Klan History founded during Reconstruction, collapsed in 1870s revived in 1915 (in part because of the movie Birth of a Nation) resurgence of popularity in the 1920s, but collapsed again by the 1930s again reappears in the 1950s

3. Klan Resurgence > Poster for the Film The Birth of a Nation by W.G. Griffith (1915)

4. Klan Resurgence > NAACP Protest the Screening of The Birth of a Nation, 1947

5. Klan Resurgence > Key Scenes in The Birth of a Nation intertitles drawn from A History of the American People (1902) by then- president Woodrow Wilson black legislators lolling in their chairs in the South Carolina legislature in the early 1870s white children don white sheets and scare black children nearby, “inspiring” Klan outfits Klansmen dump the body of the character Gus, an African American, who they had killed for causing a young white woman, Flora, to jump off a cliff

6. Klan in the 1920s > Washington, D.C. Parade

7. Klan in the 1920s > Social Movements Supported by the Klan prohibition anti-immigrant sentiments anti-radicalism religious fundamentalism morality and family values

8. Klan in the 1920s > Different Historical Explanations of the Klan racist and nativist movement populist movement reform movement reactionary movement

9. Immigration Restriction > Ku Klux Klan Marching in DC

10. Immigration Restriction > Cartoon on the Literacy Test

11. Immigration Restriction > Cartoon on the Quota Act of 1921

12. Immigration Act of 1924 (The Johnson-Reed Act) Based ceilings on the number of immigrants from any particular nation on 2 percent of each nationality recorded in the 1890 census Was directed against immigrants from Southern and Eastern Europe who arrived in large numbers after 1890 Barred all immigrants ineligible for citizenship on racial grounds, including all south and east Asians (including Indians, Japanese, and Chinese)

13. Immigration Act of 1924 > Annual Immigration Quotas Germany - 51,227 Great Britain - 34,007 Ireland - 28,567 Italy - 3,845 Hungary - 473 Greece - 100 Egypt - 100

14. Immigration Act of 1924 > Map of Europe, Literary Digest, 1924

15. Immigration Restriction > U.S. v Bhagat Singh Thind, 1923

16. Prosperity > Who Prospered in the 1920s? 1200 mergers caused the disappearance of over 600 independent enterprises top 0.1% of U.S. families in 1929 had combined income as large as bottom 42% i. e. approx 24,000 families had combined income as large as 11.5 million poor and lower-class families per capita income in the U.S. rose 9% between 1920-1929 per capita income for the top 24,000 families rose 75% 80% of families had no savings farmers did not prosper - 1/4 of all employment less than 10% invested in the stock market

17. Prosperity > Bruce Barton, author of The Man Nobody Knows, here with Hollywood producer Cecil B. DeMille, 1920s

18. Prosperity > Welfare Capitalism: Shoe Company’s Billboard Ad, 1923

19. Prosperity > Comic Strip on Workers Owning Shares, 1929

20. Automobile > Automobile Sales and Registration

21. Automobile > Ford Model T, 1920s

22. Automobile > Ford Model T French Ad, 1924

23. Automobile > General Motors Ad, 1925

24. Automobile > Cadillac Ad, 1925

25. Automobile > Ford Assembly Line, Model A, 1928

26. Automobile > Ford Model A Ad, 1929

27. Automobile > Song about Ford Model A, 1928

28. Automobile > Chevrolet Ad, 1931

29. Automobile > Paige-Jewett Car Ad, 1929

30. Great Migration > Social Patterns from rural areas to cities from the South to the North Appalachian whites Puerto Ricans African Americans

31. Great Migration > Motives immigration slows down because of WW I more work because of WW I more jobs for groups previously left out--women, rural migrants, racial minorities racial segregation and violence in the South sharecropping natural disasters such as floods and boll weevil infestations conscious choice on the part of migrants (many did not leave)

32. Great Migration > Railroad Routes

33. Great Migration > Painting by Jacob Lawrence, 1940

35. Harlem Renaissance > Marcus Garvey’s Supporters Parade in Harlem

36. Harlem Renaissance > NAACP Anti-Lynching Ad in the New York Times

37. Harlem Renaissance > Zora Neale Hurston Photo by Carl Van Vechten

38. Harlem Renaissance > The Crisis Ad for Black Swan Records, 1923

39. Harlem Renaissance > The Crisis Cover, 1929

40. Leon “Bix” Beiderbecke, “Sorry,” 1928

41. Louis Armstrong, “Weather Bird,” 1928

42. New Woman > Magazine illustrations: “Gibson Girls” by Charles Gibson--a beauty standard of the 1900s--and a flapper by John Held, Jr. from the 1920s

43. New Woman > Suffragists picketing the White House, January 1917

44. New Woman > Department Stores and Consumer Culture

45. New Woman > Working-class women at the turn of the century

46. New Woman > John Held, Jr.: Flappers have no manners or brains

47. New Woman > John Held, Jr.: “It’s all right, Santa-- you can come in. My parents still believe in you.”

48. New Woman > John Held, Jr., dustjackets for F. Scott Fitzgerald novels

49. New Woman > Film Actress Louise Brooks and a comic strip she inspired

50. New Woman > Actress Clara Bow, the ultimate flapper in It (1927) and Dangerous Curves (1929)

51. Fundamentalism > Timeline Word coined at around 1910 Denotes religious groups that take the Bible literally Popular and active in the 1920s Then the movement retreats from politics until 1980s, in part because of the Scopes Trial

52. Fundamentalism > Church Membership

53. Fundamentalism > Actor Lionel Barrymore and Modern Christ

54. Scopes Trial > Cartoon on Evolution

55. Scopes Trial > W. J. Bryan’s Cartoon against Modernity, 1924

56. Scopes Trial > Cartoon comparing Bolsheviks and Scientists, 1925

57. Scopes Trial > Bryan and Darrow

58. Scopes Trial > Bryan as Don Quixote

59. Scopes Trial > Darrow as a Street Player

60. Scopes Trial > Monkeys Vote on Evolution