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RELIGIOUS FUNDAMENTALISM

• SCOPES TRIAL – EVOLUTION VS. CREATION – SCIENCE VS. RELIGION

• TECHNOLOGICAL INNOVATION SPURRED SOCIAL TENSIONS

• POST WAR PROTESTANS FACED EXAPNDING ROMAN CATHOLIC & JEWISH POPULATIONS

• TN LAW CHALLENGED BY ACLU• DARROW DEFENSE & BRYAN

PROSECUTION• VICTORY FOR GOVERNMENT

HOLLOW• BRYAN DIES SHORTLY SOON

AFTER• REVERSED ON TECHNICALITY

DON’T JUDGE A BOOK BY ITS COVER

THE ROARING 20’S• CULTURAL LIBERATION• DISAFFECTED VIEW OF MANY

POST VERSAILLES FAILURE• LOST GENERATION OF WRITERS:

S. LEWIS (BABBIT & MAIN STREET), T.S. ELLIOT (THE WASTELAND) WM. FAULKNER (THE SOUND & THE FURY)

• ESCAPE CONSPIRACY AGAINST THE INDIVIDUAL

• CASUTIC PROBING OF SMALL TOWN LIFE, REJECT TRADITION

(e.e.cummings)

• LITERATURE GREATEST CULTURAL ADVANCE BOTH BLACK & WHITE

THE HARLEM RENAISSANCE• PRIDE IN CULTURE, HERITAGE• HUGE OUTPOURING OF

LITERATURE• LANGSTON HUGHES, ZORA NEAL

HURSTON• MUSICAL GENIUS – LOUIE

ARMSTRONG & OTHERS• JAZZ MUSIC – HOPED TO BRIDGE

GAP BETWEEN RACES BUT DIDN’T; IMPROVISATION, BREAK W/ TRADITIONAL MUSIC

• MARCUS GARVEY & “BACK TO AFRICA” MOVEMENT – FAILURE OVERALL WHEN BLACK STAR LINE BANKRUPT BUT SUCCESS WITH BLACK NURSES OF THE RED CROSS

• NOT PAN-AFRICAN MOVEMENT• MANY CONCERNED W/ ECONOMIC

STABILITY BOTH BLACK & WHITE

FILM, RADIO, ARCHITECTURE

WHAT GOES UP• BOOMING BUSINESS AFTER BRIEF

POSTWAR DEPRESSION 1922• FARMERS DON’T PARTICIPATE IN

GROWTH• GROWTH OF CITIES LED TO

INCREASED DEMAND FOR GOODS• BUSINESS & HOUSEHOLDS RUN ON

ELECTRICITY (60%)• WWI MENTALITY OF SAVING NOW

REPLACED WITH BUY, BUY, BUY• CORPORATE CONSOLIDATION,

MASS MARKETING, CONSUMER EXPECTATIONS TRANSFORMED SOCIETY

• MOST IMPORTANT CHARACTERISTIC OF STOCK MARKET WAS SPECULA-TION & BUYING ON MARGIN

• CONSPICUOUS CONSUMPTION RAMPANT

REIGNING IN THE BULL• ECONOMY NOT AS SOUND AS IT

APPEARS• MERGERS LED TO JOB LOSS –

THOUSANDS OF COMPANIES DIS-APPEAR

• GROWTH IN CONSUMER DEBT: $6BILLION BY 1929

• FARMER’S $273 PER CAPITA• WORKERS $681 PER CAPITA• WAGE DISPARITY BETWEEN N.

FACTORY WORKERS VS. SOUTHERN

• TRUCKING REPLACING RR• NATURAL GAS & PETROLEUM

REPLACING COAL• RAYON REPLACING COTTON• SOUTH REPLACING NORTH AS MFG.

CENTER

WOMEN IN THE NEW ECONOMIC ORDER

• FLAPPER – SUBSET OF WOMEN, YOUNG, URBAN, SINGLE – MOST WORKING, WORRYING, WAITING

• WAGE DISCRIMINATION • ERA FAILS 1923 • EDUCATION INCREASES BUT NOT

REPRESENTED IN THEIR PROFESSION; MED SCHOOL QUOTAS

• MARGARET SANGER: BIRTH CONTROL ONE OF PROGRESSIVE MOVEMENTS IMPORTANT LEGACIES

A – U – T - O• 2nd INDUSTRIAL REVOLUTION –

ELECTRICITY NOT STEAM• 70% OF INDUSTRIAL POWER

ELECTRIC• 1913 HENRY FORD PERFECTS THE

ASSEMBLY LINE, CARS $300; FOR THE MASSES? ANY COLOR AS LONG AS IT’S BLACK!

• 1930 60% OF AMERICANS OWNED CARS BUT IN 1925 75% BOUGHT ON CREDIT

• 1927 15 MILLIONTH MODEL T CAME OFF THE LINE IN MICHIGAN

• CHRYSLER INTRODUCES COLOR & COMPETITION BEGINS

• 1929 AUTO MFG ACCOUNTED FOR 9% OF ALL MFG. WAGES

• DRIVE IN MOVIES, CAR DATES, TRIPS TO THE SHORE, HOTELS, MOTELS, HOLIDAY INN’S, RESTAURANTS, SERVICE STATIONS; JOBS GROWING EXPONENTIALLY