Leisure Activities
Travel, radio, movies, speakeasies
What are the most popular leisure activities?
Legendary New York Yankees Slugger
Who is Babe Ruth?
Cause of the increase in news paper popularity
What is increase in literacy rates?
literary and artistic movement that celebrated African-American culture
What is the the Harlem Renaissance?
Two popular kinds of music
What are jazz and ragtime?
Largest increase of any decade in the century
What are movie theaters?
First woman to swim English Channel
Who is Gertrude Ederle?
A communal activity
What is listening to the radio?
A black musical comedy which many whites enjoyed and gave rise to many African American stars
What is the Shuffle Along?
Two popular kinds of dances
What are black bottom, waltz, tango, charleston, foxtrot?
Where people went during prohibition
What are speakeasies?
Scored 4 touchdowns in 12 minutes
Who is Red Grange?
About 60% of homes has *this* at the end of the decade
What are radios?
A landmark collection of literary works by many promising young African-American writers
What is the "The New Negro" by Alain Locke
Singer of What a Wonderful World
Who is Louis Armstrong?
Allowed Americans to get to places faster
What is the Ford T Model?
"Little Miss Poker Face"
Who is Helen Wills?
A new part of American culture
What are celebrities and sports?
Most popular poet- poems described the difficult lives of working-class African Americans
Who is Langston Hughes?
An effect of radio popularity
What is growth of record labels?
He opened the "motel"
James Vail
160,000 people went to see it, over $2,650,000
What is Dempsey vs. Tunney?
Covered both domestic and foreign affairs
What are magazines?
Son of a slave- major dramatic actor, struggled with racism
Who is Paul Robeson?
*This* had an influence of 1920s music
What is African-American culture?