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Jazz Age The Jazz genre has blossomed during the 1920s that has carried an impact to modern day. When the Great Migration happened, many African Americans had migrated from the South into the Northern and Western area. The known and pronoun white area had become a diverse community. The movement was followed by the Harlem Renaissance; also created because of their culture and artistic abilities such as painting, writing, music, and more. The harlem Renaissance was was the soul of the migrated…

Did you ever consider that you are living in the same world that people lived in centuries ago? The 1920s have long been remembered as the "Roaring Twenties," an era that featured the famous slicked back hair, vibrant flappers, and marathon dances. The 1920s were an age of dramatic social and political change. For the first time, more Americans lived in cities than on farms. The 1920s was an exciting and fascinating time in American history. Many people, places, and things have changed since…

The big “red scare” of 1919-1920 resulted in a nationwide crusade against left-wingers whose Americanism was suspect and was a godsend to conservative businesspeople, who used it to break the backs of the fledgling unions. “Red Scare” was important, because it led to violations of individual’s rights. Sacco and Vanzetti Case Nicola Sacco, a shoe-factory worker, and Bartolomeo Vanzetti, a fish peddler, were convicted in 1921 of the murder of a Massachusetts paymaster and his guard. The jury and…

The 1920s, famously known as the Roaring Twenties, was a time of great economic and social growth in America. The author F. Scott Fitzgerald portrays the flourish of success, as well as the sudden rise of materialism through the lives of Jay Gatsby, Tom and Daisy Buchanan in his novel The Great Gatsby. Fitzgerald creates many parallels between the lives of those in the 1920s and the lives of the characters in his novel. The Roaring Twenties was a time of great innovation and change in America.…

Buchannan parallels Zelda Fitzgerald. Daisy and Zelda are products of high society, wealthy southern families. They were classified as the “it girls”, they had nice clothes, money and attention from men. Both Zelda and Daisy are representations of the flapper lifestyle. They desired to break the norms of tradition with personification and open sexuality. At the end of the day, Zelda and Daisy were the type of girls that lived in the moment and aspired to discover a liberated self (Zelda Through…

would earn the nickname "the Fairway Flapper". There is no actual evidence of Jordan’s cheating to be something stringed from Cummings though. Furthermore, sources also state that coupled with being a counterpart of Edith Cummings, Jordan Baker symbolically represents the stereotype of the new age woman, the Flapper. Another reason to come to this conclusion would be because you can find in every portrayal of her in the movies, she’s wearing stereotypical flapper attire. Finally, the most…

stylish wigs and Victorian hair up-dos to the new “bobbed” hairstyles and wearing shorter dresses and the fringed flapper dresses. “To popularize smoking among women, advertisers staged parades down New York's 5th Avenue, imitating the suffrage marches of the 1910s in which young women carried "torches of…

America, the land of the free and home of the brave. In the 1920s America was the land of the liberal-minded urbanites and home of the traditional fundamentalists, divided by the stronghold call morals. The fundamentalists were people who mostly lived in the rural areas of America. These fundamentalists believed the city was a trick from the devil, the streets are littered with drunks and people who would mongrelize the American race. They wanted the pure white protestant race to be the only…

After WWI, this generation of young women defied the traditions fashion, and created a whole new brand of fashion. Flappers were clad in straight, loose-fitting dresses and skirts that dropped just below the knee. Lingerie, early forms of bras (Symington side lacer), and improved corsets accompanied the individual, while also striking down cultural standards. This new…

In throughout the 1920’s there was people that either tried to hold on to the past or they would try and make the american culture change. An example of one that is trying to hold on to the past would have to be the KKK. Now yes the original KKK died out in the 1860’s from the American culture establishing itself again at white supremacy. A new klan formed in 1915 by a man named William Simmons and he passed over the klan power to a man named Hiram Evans.In his rein he expanded the klans haterd…