1921-1941

  • The Tulsa Race Riot, called "the single worst incident of racial violence in American history

  • The Walt Disney Company is founded

  • Charles Lindbergh completes the first transatlantic nonstop solo flight from New York to Paris

  • The first film with synchronized sound, The Jazz Singer, premieres

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    The Great Depression

  • President Roosevelt signs the Social Security Act

  • Charges of rape against the Scottsboro Boys are dropped

  • The U.S. Declares neutrality in World War II

  • The U.S. embargoes all scrap metal shipments to Japan

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