The Roaring Twenties Changing Society Technology Changes Lives

The Roaring Twenties Changing Society • Technology Changes Lives • • Effects of New Technology • Jazz and the Harlem Renaissance • New Kinds of Entertainment • Early Aviators

Essential Questions • How did the art of Langston Hughes and • Why do people consider Louis Armstrong Babe Ruth and Charles represent cultural Lindbergh to be changes taking place in American heroes? American during this era?

…. Technology Changes With cars…. • Travel is far easier • Farmers can access supplies in towns • Families travel for vacation • Paved roads Improvements at home…. • Electricity in 70 % of all homes • Appliances make chores easier, less time consuming

A Changing Society “Roaring” Twenties - Progress was rapid and great. - Many Americans drove cars for the first time. Women… - Played sports for the first time - Went to college - Worked outside the house

. . More advances for women • Flew airplanes • Wore their hair short • Earned the right to vote.

Harlem Renaissance - a center for music, art, culture Music Literature, Art • Was inspired by many enslaved Africans – a variety of styles eventually turned into jazz. • Writing and paintings were about the “African-American experience” Langston Hughes Zora Neale Hurston

Authors, Artists, Musicians…

Langston Hughes Biography -Began writing poetry in 8 th grade -Worked in a restaurant, left three poems on the table of a famous poet. -Author helped him publish his own work. -Wrote poems, plays, novels, operas, musicals, short stories. I, Too I, too, sing America. I am the darker brother. They send me to eat in the kitchen When company comes, But I laugh, And eat well, And grown strong. Tomorrow, I’ll be at the table When company comes. Nobody’ll dare Say to me, “Eat in the kitchen, ” Then. Besides, They’ll see how beautiful I am And be ashamed – I, too, am American.

…more from Hughes Children’s Rhymes By what sends the white kids I ain’t sent. I know I can’t Be President. What don’t bug Them white kids sure bugs me. We know everybody Ain’t free. Lies writeen down For white folks Ain’t for us a-tall. Liberty And Justice— Huh!—For All? Still Here Been scared and battered My hopes the wind done scattered. Snow has friz me. Sun has baked me. Looks like between ‘em they done Tried to make me Stop laughin’, stop lovin’, stop livin’, -But I don’t care! I’m still here!

New Kinds of Entertainment… First radio broadcast (“Harding elected President!”) Radio stations broadcast music, movies, shows • Babe Ruth • Hollywood – “talkies”

Early Aviators • Charles Lindbergh (First solo Transatlantic flight) • Wright Bros. (“first in flight”) • Amelia Earhart (first woman to fly solo across the Atlantic) • Bessie Coleman (1 st Afr. -American woman to earn a pilot’s license)