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The 1920s was a decade of change, when many Americans owned cars, radios, and telephones for the first time. The cars brought the need for good roads. The radio brought the world closer to home. The telephone connected families and friends. Prosperity was on the rise in cities and towns, and social change flavored the air.
Apr 26, 2021 · Library of Congress/Getty Images It's been 100 years since the birth of America's "Roaring Twenties." In 1921, alcohol was contraband, headlines were shouted from street corners and much of ...
Apr 22, 2021 · Prohibition spurred the rise of organized crime and turned America into a nation of law-breakers. In other words, the 1920s were like any other decade, even our own — part good and part bad ...
May 21, 2021 · By 1929, for instance, bricklayers and iron-workers in Manhattan earned $77 a week (~$1,200 today). Carpenters and plumbers earned $66 a week. 1920s New York offered a wealth of jobs, with about 36 percent of workers in trade or transportation, like these construction and shipyward workers. In the 1920s, New York City was one of the country’s ...
E.M. Forster in “A Passage to India,” 1924. “I love my past. I love my present. I'm not ashamed of what I've had, and I'm not sad because I have it no longer.”. Colette in “Chéri,” 1920. If I can create the minimum of my plans and desires, there shall be no regrets.
Oct 29, 2009 · Outside factors led to a population boom: From 1910 to 1920, African American populations migrated in large numbers from the South to the North, with prominent figures like W.E.B. Du Bois leading ...
Aug 25, 2008 · The profound shift in the way of everyday life that occurred during the Roaring Twenties was suppressed for some decades after the stock market crash of 1929, but it was the foundation laid by the ...
