1. 1920’s – The New Era "Hip flasks of hooch, jazz, speakeasies, bobbed hair, 'the lost generation.' The Twenties are endlessly fascinating. It was the first truly modern decade and, for better or worse, it created the model for society that all the world follows today." (Rayburn, "Two Views of the 1920s.")
11. The Era Of Suspicion By Assaf Harpaz Thesis: The fear of immigrants and the idea of foreign trends such as Communism lead to extreme measures such laws and Quotas forbidding foreign laborers, which resulted with the red scare in and the new KKK, promoting Nativism and American purity.
33. Lyrics (as sung by Billie Holiday) Strange Fruit - Lewis Allan Southern trees bear a strange fruit, Blood on the leaves and blood at the root, Black bodies swinging in the Southern breeze, Strange fruit hanging from the poplar trees. Pastoral scene of the gallant South, The bulging eyes and the twisted mouth, Scent of magnolias, sweet and fresh, Then the sudden smell of burning flesh! Here is a fruit for the crows to pluck, For the rain to gather, for the wind to suck, For the sun to rot, for the trees to drop, Here is a strange and bitter crop.