The 1920s Images

Ford's Americanization School Melting Pot Pageant

Image from D.W. Griffith's Birth of a Nation

Ku Klux Klansmen march on Washington

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

Poster for Charlie Chaplin's The Gold Rush

Eugene Debs "Convict No. 9653" For President Button, 1920

President Warren G. Harding

President Herbert Hoover

Aviation hero Charles Lindbergh with his Spirit of Saint Louis

Charismatic black nationalist leader Marcus Garvey

A young woman models the "flapper" fashion

In a bizarre collision of disparate elements of 1920s culture, birth control pioneer Margaret Sanger lectured to a ladies' auxiliary of the KKK in New Jersey

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

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

Henry Ford sold 15 million of his Model T automobiles