OUT with the OLD, in with the NEW: the 1920S BEGIN Osher Lifelong Learning – Vanderbilt University Carole Bucy, Ph.D
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OUT WITH THE OLD, IN WITH THE NEW: THE 1920S BEGIN Osher Lifelong Learning – Vanderbilt University Carole Bucy, Ph.D. Professor of History – Volunteer State Community College Davidson County Historian FRANCIS SCOTT KEY FITZGERALD NEWMAN SCHOOL PRINCETON UNIVERSITY TRIANGLE DRAMATIC SOCIETY PRINCETON UNIVERSITY GINEVRA KING Source: Literature Salon Blog: accessed at: https://literaturesalon.wordpress.com/2014/01/21/famous-couples-zelda-and-f-scott-fitzgerald/ Source: Martha Stewart website: Accessed at: https://www.marthastewartweddings.com/387274/f-scott-fitzgerald-marries- first-american-flapper-95-years-ago-today Old St. Mary’s Catholic Church Cemetery, Rockville, Maryland THE TENNESSEAN, 31 DECEMBER 1919 GENERAL LAWRENCE TYSON & HIS SON, CHARLES MCGHEE TYSON COLONEL LUKE LEA & MEN Source: Encyclopedia Britannica; Accessed at: https://www.britannica.com/event/World-War-I/Killed-wounded-and-missing Source: Encyclopedia Britannica; Accessed at: https://www.britannica.com/event/World-War-I/Killed-wounded-and-missing 1873 - Dayton, Ohio EIGHTEENTH AMENDMENT TO THE U.S. CONSTITUTION JANUARY 16, 1920 February 1, 1920 – The Tennessean Attorney General A. Mitchell Palmer Source: Memphis Commercial Appeal, June, 1919; reprinted the The Literary Digest, 5 July 1919 Source: The Literary Digest, 3 January 1920 LOUIS F. POST, ASSISTANT SECRETARY OF THE POST OFFICE “Many Americans had traveled from the heady, buoyant, New Freedom Days of 1912 – to the sour, fearful, and far more pessimistic mood of the Red Scare.” NATHAN MILLER, NEW WORLD COMING Police Hold Back Onlookers Source: www.slate.com; Sept. 16, 2014 “I LANDED IN THIS COUNTRY WITH $2.50 IN CASH AND $1MILLION IN HOPES, & THOSE HOPES NEVER LEFT ME.” Charles Ponzi SECURITIES EXCHANGE COMPANY, JANUARY 1920 “Double your money in 90 days.” WHO WANTS TO BE PRESIDENT IN 1920? REPUBLICAN NATINAL CONVENTION, CHICAGO, JUNE 8-12 “Why does the Republican Party Block Suffrage? We do not want planks; we demand the 36th state.” (Banner hanging from balcony) Governor Frank Senator Bob Senator Hiram MAJOR GENERAL Orren Lowden LaFollette Johnson FRANK WOOD SENATOR WARREN G. HARDING PENNSYLVANIA FLYER DEMOCRATIC NATIONAL CONVENTION William Gibbs McAdoo A. Mitchell Palmer TENNESSEE WOMEN WANT TO BE “THE PERFECT 36”. Can you believe the final struggle to ratify the 19th amendment took place in Tennessee? CARRIE CHAPMAN CATT, PRESIDENT OF NAWSA THE ANTI-SUFFRAGISTS ANTIS GATHER AT THE HERMITAGE Abby Crawford Milton, Chattanooga Catherine Talty Kenny, Nashville WHAT HAPPENED IN TENNESSEE AFTER WOMEN GOT THE RIGHT TO VOTE? (How did the women’s vote affect the next election in Tennessee?) WHY DID GOVERNOR ROBERTS LOSE HIS BID FOR RE-ELECTION IN 1920? His law office in Livingston, Tennessee now on the campus of Livingston Academy Governor Alfred Taylor, Republican 1921-1923 AUSTIN PEAY, PROGRESSIVE GOVERNOR OF TENNESSEE, 1923-1927 From Austin Peay State University web site ELECTION NIGHT, NOVEMBER 2, 1920 KDKA RADIO, PITTSBURGH Source: CBS Pittsburgh - CBS Local Accessed at: http://pittsburgh.cbslocal.com/2012/03/08/kdkas-historic-broadcast/ Source: Pennsylvania Center for the Book; Accessed at: http://pabook2.libraries.psu.edu/palitmap/KDKA.html RADIO WENT COMMERCIAL, SEPTEMBER 1920 SELECTED BIBLIOGRAPHY • Ahmed, Liaquat, Lords of Finance: The Bankers Who Broke the World • Allen, Frederick Lewis. Only Yesterday: An Informal History of the 1920s • Bryson, Bill, One Summer: America, 1927 • Cohen, Adam, Imbeciles: The Supreme Court, American Eugenics, & the Sterilization of Carrie Buck • Gordon, Linda, The Second Coming of the KKK: the Ku Klux Klan of the 1920s and the American Political Tradition • Grann, David, Killers of the Flower Moon: The Osage Murders & the Birth of the FBI • Laskin, David, The Long Way Home: An American Journey from Ellis Island to the Great War • Lewis, David Levering, When Harlem was In Vogue.