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1920’s. Education and Popular Culture 1920’s. Schools and Mass Media Shape Culture. School enrollment in the 1920’s increased from 1 million students in 1914 to nearly 4 million by 1926 Prosperous times Higher education standards for industrial jobs
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1920’s Education and Popular Culture 1920’s
Schools and Mass Media Shape Culture • School enrollment in the 1920’s increased from 1 million students in 1914 to nearly 4 million by 1926 • Prosperous times • Higher education standards for industrial jobs • Before the 1920 schools only catered to college bound students • Schools began to offer vocation training
Expanding News Coverage • Wide spread education increased literacy • Newspaper circulation rose • Time (1923) and Readers Digest(1922) founded • Radio comes of Age • 1st commercial radio station KDKA Pittsburgh • Listeners tuned in for news, entertainment and advertisements
America Heroes • George Herman "Babe" Ruth, Jr. (February 6, 1895 – August 16, 1948), nicknamed "the Bambino" and "the Sultan of Swat", was an American professional baseball player. Beginning his major league career as a stellar left-handed pitcher for the Boston Red Sox, he achieved his greatest fame as a slugging outfielder for the New York Yankees.
America Heroes • Charles Lindbergh, Lucky Lindy, and The Lone Eagle, was an American aviator, author, inventor, explorer, and social activist • As a 25-year-old U.S. Air Mail pilot, Lindbergh emerged suddenly from virtual obscurity to instantaneous world fame as the result of his Orteig Prize-winning solo non-stop flight on May 20–21, 1927, made from New York's Long Island to Paris, France, a distance of nearly 3,600 statute miles (5,800 km), in the single-seat, single-engine purpose-built Ryan monoplane Spirit of St. Louis. As a result of this flight, Lindbergh was the first person in history to be in New York one day and Paris the next.
Entertainment and the Arts • 1st major movie with sound “the Jazz Singer” • Disney’s “Steamboat Willi” the 1st animated film with sound was released in 1928 http://video.disney.com/watch/steamboat-willie-4ea9de5180b375f7476ada2c • George Gershwin merged traditional elements with American Jazz http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0IsQ29EL6tA • Luis Armstrong famous Africa America Jazz musician http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wyLjbMBpGDA • Duke Ellington famous Africa America Jazz musician http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7atwjmPcxng • F. Scott Fitzgerald wrote This side of Paradise and The Great Gatsby • Ernest Hemingway wrote The Sun Also Rises and A Farewell to Arms