Angels with Dirty Faces
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Mar 16, 2021 · The Roaring Twenties Explained in 11 minutes - YouTube. Captivating History. 392K subscribers. Subscribed. 4K. 327K views 3 years ago. Join the Captivating History Book Club:...
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Dec 31, 2019 · An era of hot jazz, short skirts and clandestine booze. A glittering decade suspended precariously between two world wars. In America we called it the jazz age, the Brits proclaimed it the ...
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In which John Green teaches you about the United States in the 1920s. They were known as the roaring 20s, but not because there were lions running around eve...
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- Flappers: The 'New Woman'
- Fashion, Fads and Film Stars
- The Jazz Age
- Prohibition Era
- Immigration and Racism in The 1920s
- Early Civil Rights Activism
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Perhaps the most familiar symbol of the “Roaring Twenties” is probably the flapper: a young woman with bobbed hair and short skirts who drank, smoked and said “unladylike” things, in addition to being more sexually “free” than previous generations. In reality, most young women in the 1920s did none of these things (though many did adopt a fashionab...
During the 1920s, many Americans had extra money to spend—and spend it they did, on movies, fashion and consumer goods such as ready-to-wear clothing and home appliances like electric refrigerators. In particular, they bought radios. The first commercial radio station in the United States, Pittsburgh’s KDKA, hit the airwaves in 1920. Two years late...
Cars also gave young people the freedom to go where they pleased and do what they wanted. (Some pundits called them “bedrooms on wheels.”) What many young people wanted to do was dance: the Charleston, the cake walk, the black bottom and the flea hop were popular dances of the era. Jazz bands played at venues like the Savoy and the Cotton Club in N...
During the 1920s, some freedoms were expanded while others were curtailed. The 18th Amendment to the Constitution, ratified in 1919, had banned the manufacture and sale of “intoxicating liquors,” and at 12 a.m. on January 16, 1920, the federal Volstead Actclosed every tavern, bar and saloon in the United States. From then on, it was illegal to sell...
Prohibition was not the only source of social tension during the 1920s. An anti-Communist “Red Scare” in 1919 and 1920 encouraged a widespread nativist and anti-immigrant hysteria. This led to the passage of an extremely restrictive immigration law, the National Origins Act of 1924, which set immigration quotas that excluded some people (Eastern Eu...
During this decade, Black Americans sought stable employment, better living conditions and political participation. Many who migrated to the North found jobs in the automobile, steel, shipbuilding and meatpacking industries. But with more work came more exploitation. In 1925, civil rights activist A. Philip Randolph founded the first predominantly ...
What Caused the Roaring Twenties? Not the End of a Pandemic (Probably). Smithsonian Magazine. The Roaring Twenties. The Gilder Lehrman Institute of American History. The Roaring 20s. PBS: American Experience.
Two of the greatest speakers of the era, Clarence Darrow and William Jennings Bryan, faced off in a debate encompassing science, religion, and Constitutional rights. Watch now.
The Roaring 20s. Many Americans spent the 1920s in a great mood. Investors flocked to a rising stock market. Companies launched brand-new, cutting-edge products, like radios and washing...
Smithsonian Channel. Video Title. America in Color: The 1920s (Full Episode) Description. The 1920s was an era of vibrant times and colorful characters. For the first time, we present the Roaring '20s in color, from Ford's assembly line to Charles Lindbergh's transatlantic flight and from speakeasies to New York's Wall Street. From the Series ...
