Transcript Education and Popular Culture

Education and Popular Culture
Chapter 21 Section 3 Notes
School Enrollments
• 4 million kids in High School
• 1920’s Schools
– Votech classes, more classes
– Teaching Immigrants English
– Prepared people for the world
• Taxes went up to support schools
Expanded New Coverage
• Magazines
– Weekly
– Reader’s Digest, Time
– News and events
Radio Comes of Age
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Most Popular
Live News
Live Sports
Music
Opened up the World
American Hero’s
• Babe Ruth: Famous Baseball Player
• Helen Wills: Tennis pro, won U.S Open 7 Times
• Andrew Foster: Founder of Negro National
League, Father of Black Baseball
Lindbergh’s Flight
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Spirit of St. Louis
NYC -> Paris
Ticker Tape Parade
America’s #1 Hero
Entertainment and the arts
• Movies with sound (Talkies): allowed an
escape from the reality of life
• Walt Disney: Steamboat Willie
• George Gershwin: American composer
• Georgia O’Keefee: Painter who showed the
greatness of NYC
Writers of the 1920’s
• Sinclair Lewis: 1st Nobel Prize in Lit winner
• F. Scott Fitzgerald: The Great Gatsby
• The Lost Generation
– U.S. writers who moved to Paris due to the U.S.
Society and what they saw
• Ernest Hemingway
– Fought in WWI, writes against war
– New polished writing style