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Organized Crime
Alphonse "Scarface" Capone was born in Brooklyn, NY to poor Italian immigrant parents. The Mob families fought to control alchol manufacturing and distribution. Al murdered his way to the top and with millions of dollars he bought freedom to later be put away by the FBI. -
Harlem Renaissance
The biggest poet at the time of the Harlem Renaissance James Mercer Langston Hughes was born. He finished his college eduactaion in Pennsylvania and in 1930 his first novel, "Not Without Laughter" won the Harmon gold medal. To differntiate himself from the other poets at the time he refused to differnt his personal experience from the common experience of Black America. -
Great Migration
The Great Migration was the movement of 6 million African Americans out of the South and Jim Crow Laws to the North which started arond the 1916s but no specific date. -
Prohibition
The ratification of the 18th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution which banned the manufacture, transportation, and sale of intoxicating liquors-ushered to eliminate the abuse that follows drunkeness and eliminate saloons and vice. -
Flappers
A young woman with bobbed hair and short skirts who drank, smoked, and said "unladylike" things and was more sexually "free" than previous generations. -
Dow Jones Average
Average of stock prices during Hoover's first year had risen from $191- $381. -
Stock Market
This day stock prices fell quickly, started that day trading for $400, fell to $283. -
Black Tuesday
Usually about 4.8 million shares are sold in a day. On this Tuesday, 16.4 million shares are sold and the stock market collapsed. $30 billion investment lost in stock market. -
Growth of Radio
Radio grew from 60,000 to 10,250,00 more than 500 radio stations. As technology improved radios became smaller and cheaper, radio may have had such mass appeal because it was an excellent way of uniting communities of people virtually and provided a great source of entertainment. -
Growth of Movies
This day is when the first Park In theater located on Crescent Bouleveard in Camden, New Jersey. Created by Richard Hollingshead, a movie fan and sales manager at his father's company. He inspired the Park In reportedly by his mother's struggle to sit comfortably in traditional movie seats and came up with the idea when he saw patrons watching movies in the comfort of their own automobiles. -
Disappearance of Amelia Earhart
On her third attept to fly around the world in July 1937 her and her navigator Fred Noonan disappeared during their 2,556 mile-segment from New Guinea to Howland Island. -
Red Scare
After Russian Revolution the Bolsheviks were in charge and turned the government into communism led by Vladimir Lenin then the USSR was formed and wanted communism all around the world. Americans were scared communists were trying to take over here.
