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US History LA -- Radio Broadcast: 1920s Lifestyle / Entertainment/Economy

"Where There's Smoke, There's Fire" Russell Patterson (1925)

Movies & Flappers

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1920's: Film & Theater  Text to Speech function

Clara Bow: The Original It Girl

Rudolph Valentino 

Flappers  Text to Speech function

Walt Disney  Text to Speech function

Lifestyles & Economy of the 1920s

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Ain't We got Fun?    Text to Speech function  (Leisure & Social Life)

Technology Changes Daily Life    Text to Speech function 

Model T

Electrolux appliance timeline (Vacuum cleaners & refrigerators of the 1920s)

1920s Business & Economy: Topics in the News   Text to Speech function 

Music & the Arts

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Harlem Renaissance   Text to Speech function

Langston Hughes   Text to Speech function (Author)

Duke Ellington  Text to Speech function (Composer & Musician)

Louis Armstrong  Text to Speech function (Musician)

Children and Youth

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Youth Culture (Just use the parts of the article that deal with teens in the 1920s)

Flappers in Youth Culture  


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