religious fundamentalism scopes trial – evolution vs. creation – science vs. religion...
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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