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Social/cultural movements, trends, and conflicts from 1918-1945
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lines
The concept of waiting in lines was a repeating pattern during the time period of 1918-1945, especially during the great depression. As the great depression first started, people began to wait in mad lines to remove their money from the failing banks, and later were waiting in line for things such as jobs and food at soup kitches. -
Red Summer
The "Red Summer" began in the summer of 1919, when tensions rose between blacks and whites when African Americans began moving into the Northern states. Soilders had returned home from World War I to find their jobs taken in factories, warehouses, and mills to be taken by African Americans. This caused tensions to rise and many riots to break out. -
Clara Bow
Clara Bow was born and raised in Brooklyn, New York on July 29th, 1905. She was an actress, and started in the film industry at the beginning of its time. She made over 50 films, and was know as a symbol of rebellion as one of the first famous Flappers. -
Jazz Music
Jazz music is a genre of music that originated in African-American communities in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. New Orleans was known as the original founder of Jazz, it began in 1910 and combined early brass band marches, ragtime and blues. -
Al Capone
Al Capone was an American gangster who became infamous during the Prohibition era. He expanded the buisness of bootlegging and became incredibly rich from it. When he had competition from other gangs attempting to do the same, he would find ways to end them such as the "St. Valentine's day Massacre". He was finally arrested in 1931 for tax invasion. -
Flappers
After a long period of suffrage, women finally won the right to vote with the 19th ammendment on August 18th, 1920. Women like Carrie Chapman Catt kept fighting for women's rights, but many young women of the 20's didn't take much interest. Many of them were focused on partaking in night life and creating a new image for themselves. They became known as Flappers, and were northern, urban, single, young, middle-class women. They were an image of rebellion, cut their hair and wore short skirts. -
Organized Crime
Organized crime sprung up in big cities such as Chicago during the 1920's. During this time gangs and mobs began forming, and men joined to become mobsters and gang members. These gangs provided a level of self organization and resources that support much larger crimes that could've been commited solely by individuals. -
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Speakeasies
Speakeasies were bars and other establishments that took effect during the Prohibition era. They were often held underneath clubs, buisness offices, and in the basements and atticks of personal homes. These establishments illegally sold alcohol and often required passwords and secret entry, thus where the name "speakeasy" came from. -
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Prohibition
Prohibition was a cause of public morals and health issues due to alcohol during the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. It was also thought to be unpatriotic to drink German made beer during World War I. Prohibition was the Eighteenth amendment, and banned the sale, production, importation and transportation of alcohol from 1920-1933 when the 21st ammendment repealed Prohibition. -
Louis Armstrong
Louis Armstrong was an American jazz trumpeter, singer, and influential figure in the creation of Jazz music. Louis Armstrong shifted the idea of big band music and performance to single person performances for a more intimate approach. He was famous for his "skat singing", which was singing with sounds and syllables instead of actual words.
