During the 1920s, the decade during which Virginia H. Keane entered the world, America’s top news stories would include the beginning of prohibition, the first successful, nonstop flight from New York to Paris by Charles Lindbergh, the ratification of the 19th Amendment which finally gave women the right to vote, the invention of the television and the worst race riot in U.S. history in the Greenwood District of Tulsa, Oklahoma.