8 1920s: Repression, Boom, and Bust

Secondary Source Text: Short article on Palmer Raids and first Red Scare: https://www.gilderlehrman.org/history-resources/teacher-resources/historical-context-post-world-war-i-red-scare

Primary Source Video: Anti-communist cartoon made by Ford Motor Company, ca 1919: https://www.filmpreservation.org/dvds-and-books/clips/uncle-sam-and-the-bolsheviki-i-w-w-rat-ca-1919

Primary Source Text/Image: GM ad for cars on credit: https://www.granger.com/results.asp?image=0171716

Primary Source Video: Trip through River Rouge plant: this film from 1941 shows the workings of the enormous plant built in the 1920s: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xa0PAg7FfMk

Primary Source Text: 1924 immigration restriction act (Johnson-Reed Act): https://www.digitalhistory.uh.edu/disp_textbook.cfm?smtID=3&psid=1116

Secondary Source Text: Smithsonian magazine article on flappers with lots of good quotes and pictures: https://www.smithsonianmag.com/arts-culture/the-history-of-the-flapper-part-1-a-call-for-freedom-11957978/

Primary Source Text: U.N.I.A. statement of goals: http://www.shoppbs.pbs.org/wgbh/amex/garvey/filmmore/ps_objectives.html

Primary Source Text: Langston Hughes, “The Negro Poet and the Racial Mountain,” 1926: https://www.poetryfoundation.org/articles/69395/the-negro-artist-and-the-racial-mountain