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They were many exciting developments in the entertainment

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In the 1920s the first Negro leagues started in America and were founded by Rube Foster. Baseball became known as the American sport because it became so popular.

Babe Ruth was the most famous baseball player in the 1920s. In 1927 he hit a record setting 60 homeruns which was a record that stood for 30 years.

Satchel Paige, James Bell, and Josh Gibson were some of the many famous black players in the Negro league.

Jackie Robinson was the first black player to play in the MLB in America. This brought lots of controversies between whites and Africanamericans.

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●   Movie stars such as Charlie Chaplin, Rudolf Valentino and Mary Pickford became very popular. ●   The best-known film in two-colour was The Toll of the Sea from 1922. After 1932, films were produced in three-colour technicolour.●  Walt Disney created the famous Mickey Mouse in 1928.●   By 1930, 100 million Americans saw movies every week.●   United Artists and MGM produced hundreds of films per year.

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●   Jazz originatad in New Orleans played by black musicians such as Louis Armstrong and Jelly Roll Morton.   After 1917, racism forced many of them to move to other towns in the north to play in night clubs of Chicago and New York.

●   People at home started to listen to jazz thanks to the invention of the radio and the phonograph (record player). The first ones to record jazz were the Dixieland Jazz Band in 1917.   They were called 'race records', because they were recorded by black musicians.

●   Because it was often played in speakeasies, by black musicians, it was seen as wild and exciting - which soon made it very popular.

●   Jazz music contributed to many of the social developments of the age - baggy trousers and short skirts.

●   The Charleston started among black people and was adopted by flappers, who danced it alone to challenge the 'drys' who didn´t like to go out to clubs. The famous Joan Crawford and Ginger Rodgers began their movie careers when winning Charleston competitions.●   The 'Black Bottom Stomp' was first recorded by Jelly Roll Morton and named after Black Bottom. After 1926 it became the most popular dance.

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LOUIS ARMSTRONG - What a wonderful worldhttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E2VCwBzGdPM

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Jelly Roll Morton - Hesitation Blueshttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4n20U8hWHSE

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