The 1920s Images
The Melting Pot

Ford's Americanization School Melting Pot Pageant
Apex of the KKK

Ku Klux Klansmen march on Washington
The First Hollywood Blockbuster

Poster for D.W. Griffith's The Birth of a Nation
Debs for President

Eugene Debs "Convict No. 9653" for President Button, 1920
They Called Him Scarface

Chicago underworld kingpin Al Capone, who made a fortune trafficking in booze during Prohibition
Sacco & Vanzetti

Labor activists and Italian-Americans demonstrate in Boston in support of Red Scare victims Nicola Sacco and Bartolomeo Vanzetti
The First Great Car

Henry Ford sold 15 million of his Model-T automobiles