The Roaring Twenties

1920 - 1929. The Roaring Twenties was a time of great culture change in many major cities like New York, Chicago, Los Angeles, Paris and Berlin. New technologies evolved like automobiles, moving pictures and radio. Women gained the right to vote in 1920 with the 19th Amendment. This era also brought in the Jazz Age as this style of music grew. When Wall Street crashed in 1929 this brought on the Great Depression era.
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Mary McLeod Bethune (1875-1955) | Road Trip
Mary McLeod Bethune (1875-1955) | Road Trip

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Grades: 6 7 8 9 10 11 12

In 1920, Mayesville native Mary McLeod Bethune founded Bethune-Cookman College in Daytona, Florida. In 1935, Bethune was named as head of the Division of Negro Affairs of the National Youth...
Maude Callen | S.C. Hall of Fame
Maude Callen | S.C. Hall of Fame

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This episode is about Maude Callen (1898 -- 1990), a Nurse-Midwife, who singlehandedly brought health care to rural Pineville, S.C. and the surrounding area of Berkeley County in the early 1920s...
Mary McLeod Bethune | S.C. Hall of Fame
Mary McLeod Bethune | S.C. Hall of Fame

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Grades: 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12

This profile will show how Mary Jane McLeod Bethune, born to poor cotton farmers in Mayesville, S.C., would brilliantly start a school of her own with just $1.50, which became an internationally...
Julia Mood Peterkin | S.C. Hall of Fame
Julia Mood Peterkin | S.C. Hall of Fame

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Grades: 6 7 8 9 10 11 12

Julia Mood was born in Laurens County on Halloween 1880. Her mother died when she was two years old. Julia, as a teenager, attended Converse College and received a Masters degree at an early age...
Elliott White Springs | S.C. Hall of Fame
Elliott White Springs | S.C. Hall of Fame

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Grades: 9 10 11 12

"There's no such thing as bad publicity..." This remark, attributed to Irish playwright Brendan Behan, sums up the advertising philosophy of noted textile executive Elliott White Springs of Springs...
Bernard Baruch | S.C. Hall of Fame
Bernard Baruch | S.C. Hall of Fame

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Grades: 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12

Bernard Mannes Baruch was by all accounts one of the most famous and influential Americans of his era -- and certainly one of the wealthiest. Born in South Carolina in 1870, Baruch was a governor of...