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And what would people dance in the roaring twenties?
While it developed in African-American communities in the USA, the Charleston became an international dance craze in the 1920s. Despite its origins, Charleston is most frequently associated with white flappers and the speakeasy bars.
Here, these young women would dance alone or together as a way of mocking the "drys," or citizens who supported the Prohibition amendment, as the Charleston was considered quite immoral and provocative.
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