Assume One of the Following Identities: A) a Radical Political

question 25

Essay

Assume one of the following identities: a) a radical political revolutionary, b) an immigrant low-wage worker, c) an industrialist, d) a sports hero, e) a single modern woman in her twenties, f) a black civil rights activist in the South, g) a black jazz musician in Chicago or Harlem, or h) aspiring modernist artist or writer. Would you like to have lived in the America of the 1920s? Why or why not? Explain what you find most alluring about life in America during the 1920s and what adverse developments might have led you to leave America during that decade.

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