What is Going on in the World: Socially By Mel Pantano, Jackie Minor, Tam Nguyen African Americans In Pop Culture Jesse Owens (track) wins 4 Nazi Olympics gold metals Hitler refuses to shake black athletes hands Joe Louis defeats Max Schmeling and Primo Carnera Popular Athletes Jesse Owens Joe Louis Cornelius Johnson Ralph Matcalfe Mack Robinson Events Popular Authors Langston Huges(poet) Countee Cullen(poet) Jessie Fauset (writer/ editor) Movement in Harlem where black intellectuals gathered and shared their works with the world Sports in the 1930s Sports Hit Hard Times Elimination of certain college sports Minor league teams suffer Salary drops Gambling sports almost die out Dwindling audiences Solutions Baseballs All-Star game was created Radio broadcast and crowd pleasing attractors added NCAA tournament was developed Football allowed the forward pass Baseball produced some of its finest players of all time, Babe Ruth, Lou Gehrig, and Joe DiMaggio Despite the Great Depression, America hosted the 1932 Summer and Winter Olympic Games In 1936, Jesse Owens, overcame prejudice at the Nazi Olympics and swept competition Joe Louis defeated Max Smelting in boxing match that held symbolism of democracy vs. Nazism Franklin D. Roosevelt and the New Deal Helped rebuild baseball and football fields, basketball courts, and tracks Restored horse racing back into a popular event Popularized winter sports Setbacks Strikes, labor strive and violence slowed work Immigrants preferred their homelands sports over Americas Women and black athletes gain more recognition and acceptance Popular Fashions, Music, Movies, and Books of the 1930s Music of the 1930s Jazz Music Swing Classical Music Louis Armstrong Glen Miller Judy Garland Billie Holiday Country Show tunes Popular Artists Popular Songs 'In the Mood' by Glen Miller 'Somewhere Over the Rainbow' by Glen Miller and Judy Garland. Popular Movies of the 1930s Modern Times Mr. Smith Goes to Washington Gone with the Wind The Wizard of Oz It Happened One Night La Grande Illusion Pp le Moko The Public Enemy Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs Horse Feathers Directors Charlie Chaplin Frank Capra Victor Fleming William Cottrel David Hand James Whale George Stevens David Butler Fashion of the 1930s Sport dressing became even more popular in the Thirties long, wide-skirted, narrow- waisted, colorful gowns of chiffon and other lightweight materials Reflecting Thirties streamlined design, as well as womens new freedom to wear trousers sport dressing evening gowns afternoon dresses wool suits At the end of the decade, there were half as many customers as at the beginning Popular Novels of the 1930s The Hobbit Gone With the Wind The Grapes of Wrath Brave New World Rebecca Of Mice and Men And Then There Were None Little House in the Big Woods (Little House, #1) Murder on the Orient Express The Big Sleep (Philip Marlowe, #1) Madeline The Good Earth (House of Earth, #1) As I Lay Dying Little House on the Prairie (Little House, #2) Authors J.R.R. Tolkien Margaret Mitchell John Steinbeck Aldous Huxley Daphne du Maurier John Steinbeck Agatha Christie Recreation & Activities During the 1930s Board Games -ex.-Scrabble, Monopoly, etc. Reading -books, magazines, comics, etc. Radio -average family owned radio -War of the Worlds, 1938 Sports -most inexpensive -professional sports started Parks -playground games Camping -national parks Gave rise to professional sports Many new books, music, movies People created new ways to entertain -ex. Board games, camping, etc. All were somehow influenced by the Great Depression Ausk, Erin. "Music." The Great Depression and New Deal. Sharpe Online Reference (2013): N. Pag. Web. 10 Oct Carter, Alexandra. "Recreation." The Thirties in America. Ed. Thomas Tandy Lewis. 3 Vols. Salem Press, Salem History Web. 10 Oct Ciment, James. "Arts and Culture." The Great Depression and New Deal. Sharpe Online Reference (2013): N. Pag. Web. 15 Oct "Harlem Renaissance." American Decades. Ed. Judith S. Baughman, Et Al. Vol. 3: Detroit: Gale, Gale Virtual Reference Library. Web. 16 Oct This article was taken from an ebook. Mintz, Steven. "The Modern Family." Digital History. N.p., Web. 14 Oct Witherspoon, Kevin. "Sports." The Great Depression and New Deal. Sharpe Online Reference (2013): N. Pag. Web. 10 Oct 2013