The 1920s Images
The Melting Pot
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Ford's Americanization School Melting Pot Pageant
Apex of the KKK
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Ku Klux Klansmen march on Washington
The First Hollywood Blockbuster
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Poster for D.W. Griffith's The Birth of a Nation
Debs for President
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Eugene Debs "Convict No. 9653" for President Button, 1920
They Called Him Scarface
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Chicago underworld kingpin Al Capone, who made a fortune trafficking in booze during Prohibition
Sacco & Vanzetti
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Labor activists and Italian-Americans demonstrate in Boston in support of Red Scare victims Nicola Sacco and Bartolomeo Vanzetti
The First Great Car
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Henry Ford sold 15 million of his Model-T automobiles