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This is Who We Were: In The 1920s

Table of Contents

Essay on the 1920s




Introduction




Section One: Profiles




Doctor Who Supported Women’s Reproductive Rights in 1921




Elementary School Teacher of Immigrant Children in 1921




Successful Star of the Silents in 1922




Welsh Immigrant Printing Plant Worker in 1923




High School Junior in 1923




Businessman and Anti-Immigration Activist in 1923




Ice Delivery Company Owner in 1923




Dentist in 1924




Civic Leader and Entrepreneur in 1924




Textile Mill Worker in 1925




Miner and Professional Football Player in 1925




Phonograph Salesman in Chicago in 1925




Elementary School Teacher in 1926




Jewish Cartoonist in 1926




Young Stickball Player in 1926




Gideon Sundback and the “Zipper” in 1926




Successful Small Farmer in 1927




Socialite in 1927




Debutante in 1927




Heavyweight Prizefighter in 1927




Blues Singer Florence Mills in 1927




IQ Test Salesman in 1927




WCTU Movie Monitor in 1928




Wall Street Stockbroker in 1928




Piano Teacher in 1928




Female Auto Engineer in 1929




Pro-Immigration Lobbyist in 1929




Dock Boggs, Banjo Player and Singer, in 1929




Section Two: Historical Snapshots




Early 1920s




Mid 1920s




Late 1920s




Section Three: Economy of the Times




Consumer Expeditures




Annual Income




Selected Prices




Value of a Dollar Index 1860-2012




Section Four: All Around Us-What We Saw, Wrote, Read & Listened To




All Around Us-1920s




Section Five: Census Data




State-by-State Comparative Tables: 1920, 1930 amd 2010




United States Summary




Chapter 1: Urban and Rural Population, Metropolitan Districts and Center of Population




Chapter 2: Color or Race, Nativity and Parentage




Chapter 3: Sex Distribution




Chapter 4: State of Birth of the Native Population




Chapter 5: Country of Birth of the Foreign Born




Chapter 6: Country of Origin of the Foreign White Stock




Chapter 7: Mother Tongue of the Foreign-born White Population




Chapter 8: Citizenship of the Foreign Born




Chapter 9: Year of Immigration of the Foreign Born




Chapter 10: Age Distribution




Chapter 11: Marital Condition




Chapter 12: School Attendance




Chapter 13: Illiteracy




Chapter 14: Inabilty to Speak English




Bibliography