Transcript Jazz Age Continued

Jazz Age Continued
• Painting focused on city life, mines, streets
(rougher edges of life!)
• Literature- Sinclair Lewis attacked society
using irony
• Harlem Renaissance- African-American
literary awakening in Harlem, NYC
Lost Generation
• Belief of some writers that they were lost
in a greedy, materialistic world
• Saw rich as self-centered and shallow
• Also wrote about World War I
• (next day)
Cultural Conflicts
• Prohibition leads to increases in organized
crime
• Al Capone- Chicago gangster; boss of a
huge criminal enterprise
– $60 million a year from bootlegging
Lexington Hotel- Capone
headquarters
• Federal government leads way in fighting
against organized crime (why?)
• Capone-Jailed for ________
– Eventually dies in Florida after release
• Capone's control and interests within organized crime diminished
rapidly after his imprisonment, and he was no longer able to run the
Outfit after his release. He had lost weight, and his physical and
mental health had deteriorated under the effects of neurosyphilis. He
often raved on about Communists, foreigners, and George Moran,
who he was convinced was still plotting to kill him from his Ohio
prison cell.
• On January 21, 1947, Capone had an apoplectic stroke. He
regained consciousness and started to improve but contracted
pneumonia on January 24. He suffered a fatal cardiac arrest the
next day.
• Capone was buried in Mount Olivet Cemetery, in Chicago's far
Southwest Side between the graves of his father, Gabriele, and
brother, Frank. However, in March 1950, the remains of all three
family members were moved to Mount Carmel Cemetery in Hillside,
Illinois, west of Chicago.
Issues of religion
• Scopes trial tests Tennessee law banning
teaching of evolution
• First trial broadcast on radio
• Scopes loses on a technicality