2. The New Family Structure
and Roles
 American women continued to have
primary responsibility for caring for the
home, and most still depended on men for
financial support.
 Woman sought greater equality
 More women attended college
 The flapper- independent, free lifestyle
woman

3. What lead to Urbanization
 Farming was on a downward slope during WWI
 Education increased
 The automobile

4. Conflicts over values
Rural America Urban
Areas
• Hard work
• Self reliance
• Religion
• Independence
• Represente
d change
that affected
those
values

5. The 18th amendment
(prohibition)
on

6. Marcus Garvey and W.E.B.
Du Bois
The Rise of Marcus
Garvey
• Formed the Universal
Negro Improvement
Association (UNIA)
• Back to Africa to create to a
new empire
• Economic success with the
Black Star line
Conflict with Du
Bois
• Garvey didn’t agree with
the Views of the NAACP
• The NAACP suspicions
with the UNIA
• FBI charged UNIA with
mail fraud and Marcus
Garvey goes to prison

7. Writers
• Little African American literature was
published before that era.
• Writers like Zora Neale Hurston and James
Weldon Johnson wrote of facing white
prejudice.

8. Poets
• Poets like Claude McKay and Langston Hughes
wrote of black defiance and hope.
• These poets recorded the distinctive culture of
Harlem in the 1920s.

9. Artist
• Black artists won fame during this era, often
focusing on the experiences of African
Americans.
• William H. Johnson, Aaron Douglas and Jacob
Lawrence were well known.

10. Effects of the Media
 The rise of the radio
 Movies
 Popular culture is born

11. Video