CHAPTER OUTLINE

Reaction in the 1920s Changing moods Disillusionment Defiance against change Nativism Sacco and Vanzetti case Efforts to restrict immigration Revival of the Ku Klux Klan Fundamentalism Emergence of fundamentalism William Jennings Bryan Scopes trial Prohibition An expression of reforming zeal Organization for the cause Crusade for a constitutional amendment Effectiveness of prohibition Its link with organized crime Al Capone The Roaring Twenties A time of cultural conflict The Jazz Age Music Movies The new morality Emphasis on youth The “New Woman” Obsession with sex Impact of Freud Birth control Margaret Sanger Personal background Nurse Comstock Law Family-planning clinic Public support Eugenics The women’s movement The work for women’s suffrage Alice Paul and new tactics Contributions of Carrie Chapman Catt Passage and ratification of the amendment Effects of women’s suffrage Push for an Equal Rights Amendment Women in the workforce The “New Negro” The Great Migration north Demographics Impact of the move The Harlem Renaissance Marcus Garvey and Negro nationalism Universal Negro Improvement Association Separatism Development of the NAACP Emergence of the organization Role of Du Bois Strategy The campaign against lynching The Scottsboro case The culture of modernism Science and social thought Einstein and the theory of relativity Uncertainty principle Denial of absolute values Modernist art and literature Bewildering technological change Characteristics Emphasis on subconscious Concern with new forms Prophets of modernism T. S. Eliot Ezra Pound Gertrude Stein Other modernist writers Southern Renaissance Conflict of values Thomas Wolfe William Faulkner