Topics Included in Presentation Sacco Vanzetti KKK Prohibition

Topics Included in Presentation: • • • Sacco + Vanzetti, KKK Prohibition and Gangsters Scopes Monkey Trial Entertainment Great Migration and NAACP

Sacco and Vanzetti • Italian Immigrants executed for murder • Significance: – fear of foreigners in United States

Ku Klux Klan • Targets in the 1920 s: – Blacks – Immigrants = Jews and Catholics – Other non-white groups – Homosexuals

Calvin Coolidge • “Silent Cal” – 30 th • Takes over Presidency when Harding dies. • Wins reelection in 1924 but does not run for reelection in 1928. • “The business of America is business!!”

“You can get much further with a kind word and a gun than you can with a kind word alone. ”

Mafia in the United States 5 Big Families Commission Gambino Genovese Lucchese Bonanno Colombo http: //www. howstuffworks. com/mafia. htm/printable http: //www. askmen. com/money/mafioso_150/178_mafia. html

What was the controversial issue in the Scopes Monkey Trial in 1925? o Charles Darwin’s theory of evolution. o Man “evolved” from apes.

1 st Radio Broadcast - 1920 o First Broadcast o At 6: 00 pm, on Tuesday, November 2, 1920, a few men in a shack changed the course of history. o Pittsburgh, PA.

Amelia Earhart Charles Lindbergh

o 1 st person to fly solo across the Atlantic Ocean by o 33 hours and 39 minutes o Received a prize of $25, 000

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The Jazz Singer (1927) • The 1 st feature length motion picture with synchronized dialogue. • Starred Al Jolson • Marked the decline of the silent film era

Paintings of Georgia O’Keefe

• Movement of African. Americans from the South to Urban areas of United States • More than 1. 5 million • 1914 – 1930 • Escape racism, find better jobs, overall better life in the North

• National Association for the Advancement of Colored People • James Weldon Johnson was instrumental in increasing the NAACP's membership from 9, 000 to almost 90, 000. – Wrote National Black anthem “Lift Every Voice and Sing”