Dance History & U.S History 1920's-1940's

By RamseyShobe

  • Tap Become Popular

  • Womens Suffrage Movement

  • Tap Musical "Shuffle Along"

  • "The Art of Stage Dancing"

  • Slash on Tax Incomes, National Origins Acts, The Great Gatsby

  • Scopes Trial

  • Special Jazz Band Plays in New Dunbar Theater

  • Florence Mills Dies

  • Blues Singer Bessie Smith Performs

  • Stock / Wall Street Crash

  • Musical "Desires"

  • 3.2 Million Unemployed

  • Reed and Bryant Perform in NYC

  • Kurt Joss - "The Green Table"

  • FDR Elected / Bonus Army

  • 20/21 Amendment , New Deal , NRA

  • Hitler Gains Power

  • Gold Standard Terminated

  • Social Security Act, Hoover Dam Constructed

  • Doris Humphrey Trilogy

  • FDR Elected

  • WWII

  • Broadway Musical - "Cabin in the Sky"