1. Culture during the 1920s
What social trends and innovations shaped
popular culture in the 1920s?

2. WARM-UP:
• In what ways do modernism and traditionalism conflict today?
• What parts of our culture, from your experiences or observations, illustrate
this clash?
http://www.thisamericanlife.org/play_full.php?play=290

3. Post WWI Tensions
• Labor unrest
• Rising socialism = Red Scare
Sedition Act 1918
Espionage Act
• Xenophobia

4. Consumer Culture
• “Consumption is good
for the economy”
• Buy on credit

5. Transportation
• Charles Lindbergh, Amelia
Earhart
• Wingwalkers
• Barnstorming

6. • Automobiles = suburbs, motels, gas stations, etc.

7. Mass Media
• Radio = today’s internet
• Movies
• Advertising
• National celebrities

8. Women’s Movement
• 19th Amendment
• Sexual liberation and
Margaret Sanger
• Flappers
• League of Women
Voters
• Equal Rights
Amendment
http://www.npr.org/templates/archives/archive.php?thingId=141952675

9. Art
• Harlem Renaissance, Jazz
• “The Lost Generation” – F. Scott
Fitzgerald, Ernest Hemingway..
• Georgia O’Keefe, Edward Hopper
• Norman Rockwell

10. Education and Medicine
• Schools designed on factory model
•
• No FDA to regulate and test drugs
• Advances were made
• Germ theory
• Anesthesia in surgery

11. Traditionalism vs. Modernism
• Traditionalists = old values
• Modernists = new values

12. Traditionalism vs. Modernism
Urban vs. Rural
Youth vs. Adult
Wet vs. Dry
• Prohibition – 18th and 21st Amendments
Religion vs. Science
• The Scopes Trial

13. 1920s in Oregon
• Eugenics
• Ku Klux Klan

14. KKK in Lane county

15. Eugenics in Oregon
Textbooks in Texas