The Roaring 20s conjures up images of happy people dancing the Charleston, listening to jazz in Harlem nightclubs, and drinking bathtub gin.  In many ways this was a decade dominated by optimism, as people enjoyed the conveniences that technology brought into their lives.  Yet the 1920s were also marked by some troubling trends and events, and not everybody enjoyed the "Coolidge Prosperity."  There was a resurgence of racism in the Jim Crow South, the trend of nativism flourished, and the country was divided over the role of the Bible in public schools.  It's no wonder that writers like F. Scott Fitzgerald and Sinclair Lewis were part of a Lost Generation, looking for some meaning in 20th century modernity.