LIFE 1920
Historical Highlights from 1920 :
- The U.S. Post Office rules that children may not be sent via parcel post.
- Rising popular interest in African-American literature sparks the beginning of the Harlem Renaissance.
- Babe Ruth is traded by the Red Sox, the largest sum ever paid for a player at that time.
- Palmer Raids takes place, suspected communists and anarchists arrested and held without trial in several U.S. cities.
- The United States Senate votes for joining the League of Nations.
- The League of Women Voters is founded in Chicago.
- The American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) is founded.
- The Nineteenth Amendment is passed, guaranteeing women’s suffrage (right to vote).
- Mickey Rooney, film actor, is born.
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