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Education and Culture in the 1920s: Transformative Trends and Influential Figures

Discover the shifts in education and culture during the 1920s in the United States, including factors driving increased school attendance, impacts on literacy, rise of popular culture, and emergence of new heroes.

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Education and Culture in the 1920s: Transformative Trends and Influential Figures

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  1. What were the Characteristics of Education & Culture During the 1920s? Al-Madinah School || 11th Grade Boys & Girls United States History & Government January 7, 2020

  2. How did Education Change? • Factors That caused more students to go to schools • Prosperity of America • Business & Industries’ requirement for a more educated workforce • Number of Change of High School Students • 1914: 1million • 1926: 4 million

  3. Changes in School • Before 1920s: High Schools were preparing students for college • During 1920s schools offered wide range of courses • Vocational training • Home economics • Increased immigrant children in high schools

  4. Impact of Education • Increased Literacy • More people were reading newspapers • Newspaper Chains rose • National magazines became popular • News Magazines also started • Magazines with fictions and articles • Radio became a powerful mass media • Created shared national experience

  5. Popular Culture and New Heroes • More Money led to having new ways of spending • Fads: puzzles and games • Sports events • Golden Age of Sports &New Heroes • Athletes became popular • Charles Lindbergh: Cross Atlantic Flight

  6. Popular Culture and New Heroes • Cinema became national pastime • The Jazz Singer (First Movie with Sound) • Steamboat Willie (First Animated Movie)

  7. Popular Culture and New Heroes • Artists & Artistic Traditions • First break from European traditions • Eugene O'Neil: Wrote plays to depict confusion in American life • George Gershwin: New blend of American Jazz Music • Edward Hopper & Georgia O’Keeffe showed new style of American painting

  8. Popular Culture and New Heroes • Novelist F. Scott Fitzgerald coined the term “Jazz Age”/ Earnest Hemingway another novelist • Writer Sinclair Lewis was the first American to win Nobel Prize for Literature • Edna Vincent Millay (Poet) • Some disliked new American Culture calling it “lost generation” and left the country, like Gertrude Stein

  9. Homework • Questions 1, 2, 4 & 5 on page 657

  10. What is Harlem Renaissance and What Impact did It Have? United States History and Government Br. Siraj Tuesday, January 7, 2020

  11. African Americans & Harlem Renaissance • Great Migration brought a lot of African Americans to Northern Cities • NAACP worked for the advancement of them • Writers and Artists worked for NAACP • James Weldon Johnson, poet & lawyer, fought for the anti-lynching laws • Marcus Garvey appealed to black pride – Formed UNIA

  12. Harlem Renaissance • The literary and artistic movement of African Americans that began at Harlem neighborhood of New York City. • Calude McKay, Poet, urged for resisting discrimination • Langston Hughes: Wrote about the daily life of the working class blacks. • Zora Neale Hurston: Collected the folklore of poor southern blacks

  13. Paul Robeson, actor and Singer • Louis Armstrong, the most influential Jazz musician • Duke Ellington, Jazz pianist and composer • Besse Smith & Josephine Baker, Singers

  14. Homework • Terms and Names • Main Ideas Questions 1, 3, 5, and 7 • Page 666

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