Roaring Twenties Essay

There once was an amazing era in American history. A long time ago, well, more like 90 years ago, there was a time of flappers and music, entertainment, and different fads and trends. They called it “The Roaring Twenties.” And while all of those things were fun, awful things happened as well, such as the rebirth of the Ku Klux Klan, and then the point where everything came to a screeching halt, the stock market crash of 1929.
When people think of the Roaring Twenties, they usually think of flappers. Flappers were women who often smoked, drank alcohol, and did other conventionally unladylike things. The common style among flappers was short skirts and bobbed hair. One commonly known flapper is Betty Boop, America’s first animated flapper icon. Originally based on a black singer Baby Esther, Betty Boop inherited Esther´s “Baby singing style,” using quotes such as “Boop-Oop-A-Doop” (Pellot, Littlethings.com). Betty Boop appeared for the first time in the cartoon “Dizzy Dishes” as an unnamed female dog with long, floppy ears. She was later developed into a human when her extensive ears were altered into her current hoop earrings.
Another thing about the Roaring
The Ku Klux Klan was a racist group who supported white supremacy. Their slogan was “Native, white, protestant supremacy (Andrist, Stillman, Davidson, and Kelly 50).” Though they mainly targeted negroes, they also attacked immigrants, foreigners, Jews, and Catholics. They were attempting to ensure that black people would be slaves to white people permanently. They used threats and acts of violence to intimidate people who they saw as not “truly American.” This included burning crosses, bombing black schools and churches, and public humiliation such as tarring and featherings, beatings, and assassinations. But the Klan saw a massive decline after the Stock Market Crash of 1929, and completely depleted during the Great