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"The Roaring Twenties" - "The 1920's" - Arts & Literature - 1 views

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      New dances, such as the Charleston, came about in the 1920s.
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    The Roaring Twenties was alternatively known as The Jazz Age. This "movement" in which jazz music grew in popularity by immense standards in the U.S., also influenced other parts of the world. Following World War I, around 500,000 African Americans in search of better employment opportunities moved to the northern part of the United States.
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Prohibition: The Noble Experiment - 0 views

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    Because the temperance movement taught that alcohol was a poison, it insisted that school books never mention the contradictory fact that alcohol was commonly prescribed by physicians for medicinal and health purposes. 7 Temperance Leader Lucius Manlius Sargent tried to get secondarty schools, colleges and universities to eleminate all references to alcoholic beverages in ancient Greek and Latin texts.
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1920's Art - 0 views

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    1920's Art plus information on Artists and Illustrators
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