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20 HIDDEN 1920s Facts So Shocking They Rewrote History Books

You grew up watching glamorous 1920s parties, successful Prohibition, and complete women's liberation. The truth will destroy every Jazz Age myth. 60% of Americans lived BELOW POVERTY LINE while top 1% owned 40% of wealth. Prohibition created 30,000-100,000 NYC speakeasies (MORE than legal saloons before ban). Women got vote but faced marriage bars forcing job resignations, couldn't serve juries, banks refused loans without male co-signers. Historians analyzed census data, financial records, personal accounts - what they found shatters Hollywood glamour. Farm prices dropped 50% in 1920-1921, NEVER RECOVERED - rural America in depression entire decade. KKK reached 4-6 MILLION members peak mid-1920s. Jazz faced cultural opposition, banned in dance halls. Only 60% families owned cars by 1929 (40% without). Stock market crash REVEALED problems, didn't create them - structural weaknesses existed throughout decade. Real 1920s: Most speakeasies grimy dangerous (not glamorous), racism INTENSIFIED not declined, sexual revolution myth (Kinsey showed most conservative), 45% remained rural (urban-rural cultural war), flapper fashion elite only, economic downturns throughout decade, celebrity culture technologically limited, Native Americans citizenship 1924 but still marginalized. #1920s #roaringtwenties #prohibition #jazzage #history #myths