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Several massacres of black people took place in the 1920s, including on May 31, 1921, when a white mob descended on "Black Wall Street", a prosperous black neighborhood in Tulsa, Oklahoma. Over the next two days, they killed as many as 300 people, burned down 40 city blocks, and left 10,000 black residents homeless. [142] [143]
Fass, Paula S. (2007) The Damned and the Beautiful: American Youth in the 1920s. 2007. ISBN 978-0-19-502492-0; Gourley, Kathleen (2007) Flappers and the New American Woman: Perceptions of Women from 1918 Through the 1920s (Images and or of Women in the Twentieth Century). ISBN 978-0-8225-6060-9
Fenton's pictures during the Crimean War were one of the first cases of war photography, with Valley of the Shadow of Death considered "the most eloquent metaphor of warfare" by The Oxford Companion to the Photograph. [13] [14] [s 3] Sergeant Dawson and his Daughter: 1855 Unknown; attributed to John Jabez Edwin Mayall [15] Unknown [e]
Speakeasies were numerous and popular during the Prohibition years (1920-1933). Some were operated by people who were part of organized crime. Even though police and agents of the Bureau of Prohibition would often raid them and arrest their owners and patrons, they were so profitable that they continued to flourish. The speakeasy soon became ...
The Sunset Café, also known as the Grand Terrace Café or simply Grand Terrace, [13] operated during the 1920s, 1930s and 1940s. It was one of the most important jazz clubs in America, especially during the period between 1917 and 1928 when Chicago became a creative capital of jazz innovation and again during the emergence of bebop in the ...
Local Developer Brendon Meier is the owner of Hush on Main which is a 1920s speakeasy-themed bar in the basement unit of the Marlocon Building. ... a place where people come to enjoy themselves ...
Performances were often used in clubs and speakeasies in order to hide the fact that people were flocking in for illegal alcohol, which led to the "upgrade of entertainment into a small Vaudeville show". [1] Speakeasies, due to their highly theatrical and liberal atmosphere, allowed for theatre to permeate everyday behavior.
The 20 Most Popular Baby Names from the 1920s Bettmann - Getty Images ... Take the popular 1920s baby name Paul, for example. The name ties back to Biblical origins and can be associated with ...