Transcript People who Influenced Culture in the 1920s March 2, 2015

People who Influenced
Culture in the 1920s
March 2, 2015
Phonograph
• Listen to music whenever want
Sports
• Babe Ruth (1895 – 1948)
• Nickname: “Bambino”
• Boston Red Sox
– Sold to NY Yankees
Aviation
• Plays small part in WWI
• Used for mail
• Charles Lindbergh
• 1927: Flies from Long Island, NY to Paris, France
– Plane “Spirit of St Louis”
• 1st solo, non-stop flight across Atlantic
– Took 33 hours
• Lindbergh declared a hero
• Sigmund Freud (1856 – 1939)
– Father of psychology
• Credited with creating psychoanalysis
– Psychologist/ Patient
• F Scott Fitzgerald
– Novelist
• The Great Gatsby (1925)
– American dream end in nightmare
• Destroyed by the things he wanted
– “Portrait of the so-called American dream”
• Ernest Hemingway
– Novelist
• Won nobel prize in Literature
• For Whom the Bell Tolls/ Old Man & the Sea
Harlem Renaissance
March 6, 2015
Harlem Renaissance
• Mass migration brings millions of African Americans to cities
in North
Chances in North
• (1) Higher paying jobs; (2) More jobs; (3) More education
Challenges in North
• (1) Racism; (2) Wage discrimination; (3) Violence
• 1919: young African American boy drowned in Lake
Michigan after rocks thrown in “White Section”
Marcus Garvey
• Born in Jamaica (moves to Harlem)
• Starts “Back to Africa” movement
– African Americans NOT treated right in U.S./ Leave U.S.
• Advocate for separation of the races
– Unsuccessful
• Arrested for mail fraud and deported back to Jamaica