1. The 1920’s presents a time when an entire people was grappling with massive technological and social change. Americans spent the decade seeking to adapt to the rise of a mass-production, mass-culture metropolitan world that had emerged seemingly overnight.
2. Discuss the decade in these terms, describing the many ways in which Americans sought to deal with these changes.
3. Analyze how the rhetoric of World War II brought the contradiction between the principle of equal freed and the actual status of blacks to the forefront of national life
