The Roaring Twenties (1920 – 1929 CE)

1920

• Stormé DeLarverie is born this year.

1921

• July 21: The U.S. Senate Committee on Naval Affairs officially renounces the tactics used in the Newport investigation.

1922

• The central limit theorem is proven — no one tells Alan Turing.

1923

• Willem Arondeus is hired to paint a mural at the Rotterdam Town Hall.
• The Scientific-Humanitarian Committee stops regularly publishing the “Yearbook for Intermediate Sexual Types”. They continue to publish it sporadically.
• Paramount Records asks Ma Rainey to record songs with them.

1924

• Ma Rainey records “See See Rider Blues.”

1925

• Ma Rainey is arrested for “running an indecent party” — a lesbian orgy. Bessie Smith pays her bail.

1926

• Alfred Kinsey publishes “An Introduction to Biology”.

1928

• Ma Rainey records and releases “Prove It On Me Blues” — a scandalous song about lesbianism. This is also Ma Rainey’s final year recording for Paramount Records.

1929

• Osch-Tisch dies.
• Carlett Angianlee Brown is born, and given the name Charles Robert Brown by her parents.
• Kurt Hiller takes over as chairman of the Scientific-Humanitarian Committee.