The "Roaring Twenties" was a roaring decade indeed. The passage of
the Volstead Act prohibited the sale and consumption of alcohol and
spawned a black market network of smuggling and speakeasies.
Gangsters like Al Capone captured the public's imagination.
Fashionable, fun-loving women wore short skirts and even shorter
hair. They, and a growing number of the public, danced to jazz
music, and the popular Cotton Club in Chicago was open to both
African Americans and whites. Business was booming in many
industries and, for the first time, people were buying on credit.
Speculation in the stock market was at an all-time high as a "get
rich quick" mentality took hold, but the artificially inflated
bubble burst on October 24, 1929. The stock market crash closed out
the 1920s with a bang.
The following documents are just a sampling of the offerings
available in this volume:
- New York Dada first and only issue of Dadaist magazine
by Man Ray
- Maidenform Brassiere Patent drawings and documentation, text
facsimile
- Alfred E. Smith's speech on Religious Bigotry
- Reports and memos by J. Edgar Hoover, both as a special agent
and Justice Department Attorney, on the activities of black
nationalist Marcus Garvey
- "The Four Horsemen" of Notre Dame football: article by
Grantland Rice and photograph of the players
- "Far From Well," book review by author and poet Dorothy
Parker
- "Plan-Isometric and Elevation of a Minimum Dymaxion home and
patent applicat by R. Buckminster Fuller
- Handbook for Guardians of Camp Fire Girls, 1924
- "Open Letter to the Pullman Company," by A. Philip Randolph,
founder of the Brotherhood of Sleeping CarPorters
- Journal entry of May 5, 1926, by Robert Goddard documenting the
launch of the first liquid-fuel rocket
- Daily Worker editorial cartoons covering the trial, sentencing,
and execution of Sacco and Vanzetti
- Photograph of American Indian Chiefs Frank Seelatse and Jimmy
Noah Saluskin
- The Care and Feeding of Children, a guidebook for new
parents
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