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

• 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

• 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