Cultural Conflicts of the 1920s

Prohibition: 18th Amendment Goals:

Eliminate drunkenness Domestic Abuse

Get rid of saloons Prevent Absenteeism

Prohibition Problems Bootlegging

Selling booze illegally Speakeasies

Illegal Bars Stats:

Mass. before 1,000 bars Boston after 4,000 bars

Prohibition Problems Organized Crime

Bootlegging = $$$ Gangs fight for territory

Racketeering Bribing police to ignore

illegal activities then made businesses pay for protection

Prohibition Problems Al Capone

Most notorious gangster of 1920s

Chicago St. Valentine’s Day

Massacre Arrested for tax evasion

The “Red Scare”: Fear of Foreigners

Russian Revolution Sacco & Vanzetti J. Edgar Hoover A. Mitchell Palmer

Issues of Religion Fundamentalism

Traditional Christian ideas about Jesus

God inspired Bible, literally true

Billy Sunday

Issues of Religion Scopes Trial

John T. Scopes teaches evolution

William Jennings Bryan vs. Clarence Darrow

Mass Media Clash of values

Roles Change: Women / Education 19th Amendment Flappers Increase in high

school and college enrollment.

Racial Tensions Violence against Blacks

1919, “Red Summer” Race Riots

Chicago (Worst) Omaha Tulsa Washington D.C.

Lynching Continue

Omaha Race Riot of 1919

Racial Tensions Revival of the KKK

Fuel by fear of foreigners

Against all “Un-American”

Membership 1922: 100,000 1924: 4 million 1927: Declines

Racial Tensions Fighting Discrimination

NAACP Anti-Lynching Laws Voting Rights

The Garvey Movement Marcus Garvey UNIA

Progress??? Harlem Renaissance Music / Art / Literature Based out of Harlem The Great Migration

Louis Armstrong

Besse Smith

Langston Hughes

Duke Ellington

People and things we know 1920’s Automobile Radio Washing Machine Refrigerator Vacuum Cleaner Sewing Machine Sound Movies Phonograph Shopping Malls - Credit

Babe Ruth “Rube” Foster G. Ederle C. Lindbergh F. Scott Fitzgerald E. Hemmingway J. Dempsey Gene Tunney Bobby Jones