Social Changes of the 1920’s

1. Social Changes of the 1920’s • Women’s Roles • Flapper’s influence women’s fashion and behavior • More Women enter the work force • Women’s vote gradually influences politics • Jeannette Rankin

2. Demographics • More people move from rural to urban areas • Rural-urban economic gap widens • Morals and manners differ between rural and urban areas • African Americans migrate north • Suburbs grow

3. Lifestyles • Buses begin to replace trolleys • Automobiles increase people’s mobility • Interest in spectator sports increases

4. National Heroes are Born • “Lucky Lindy” Charles Lindbergh • Amelia Earhart • Jack Dempsey • Jim Thorpe • Babe Ruth • Gertrude Ederle

5. Mass Media • Print or broadcast methods of communicating information to large numbers of people • Daily Newspapers, 1920-1929, 42% increase in circulation (39,426,000 a day) • Motion Pictures, 1922-1929, 100% increase in number of people attending (80 million per week) • Radios, 1922-1929, 16,983% increase in number of households with radios (10,250,000)

6. Mass Media • Led to a shared American culture across the country • Our nation became less regionalized • The Jazz Age began as music was broadcast over the radio

7. Duke Ellington

8. Louis Armstrong

9. George Gershwin

10. Benny Goodman

11. Jelly Roll Martin

12. Harlem Renaissance • African American literary awakening of the 1920s. • Harlem, NY • James Weldon Johnson • Alain Locke • Zora Neale Hurston • Claude McKay • Countee Cullen • Langston Hughes

13. “I, Too”, 1926 I, too, sing America. I am the darker brother. They send me to eat in the kitchen when company comes, but I laugh, and eat well, and grow strong. Tomorrow, I'll be at the table when company comes. Nobody'll dare say to me, “eat in the kitchen” then. Besides, they'll see how beautiful I am and be ashamed— I, too, am America. - Langston Hughes

14. Nobody'll dare Say to me, "Eat in the kitchen,” Then. Besides, They'll see how beautiful I am And be ashamed— I, too, am America.