Society in the 1920s Angela Brown http://www.polyvore.com/1920s_craze/set?id=12425007 Society in the 1920s Angela Brown

Flapper – a new type of women: young, rebellious, fun loving and bold Symbol of change in American attitudes and manners = flapper (stood for longing to break with past) Flapper – a new type of women: young, rebellious, fun loving and bold http://www.polyvore.com/1920s_flapper/set?id=5949476

Women’s Changing Roles The Flapper Image Shorter dresses “bobbed” hair tight fitting hats make-up smoked/drank in public http://my.ilstu.edu/~lmerri/uhigh/1920%27s/flappers.gif

NY city with no warning began enforcing ordinance banning smoking by females in restaurants, hotels and other public places Young men would commit any number of crimes to get money to lavish on smoking women http://whi.s3.leg.thumbs.lg1x8.simplecdn.net/20090801212002.jpg

Working Women and Voting Many adapted new styles because they were convenient not because they admired the flapper style. Women only worked until married not trained (would not hire doctors or lawyers) 35% of women voted patterns similar to men so little effect – more impact in local races Women began to seek public office – Jeannette Rankin (1st House of Congress) Miriam A. Ferguson on from Texas/Nellie Taylor Ross of Wyoming elected governor in 1924. (Husbands had been governors)

Cities and Suburbs http://thepalacehotel.org/images725/PalaceHotel_1920s.jpg Demographics – are the statistics that describe a population, such as data on race or income Movement continued from rural areas to cities

African Americans in the North Many new job opportunities opened up for African Americans in the North. 1860 93%; 1910 89%; 1930 80% African Americans lived in the South. Factory workers still faced anger and hatred from white’s African American women worked as household help – wages kept them trapped in poverty

Other Migration New immigration quotas did not apply to nations in the Americans – turned to workers for Mexico and Canada to fill low paying jobs Barrio – Spanish-speaking – neighborhoods (LA magnet for Mexicans) Puerto Ricans migrated

Growth of Suburbs Automobiles = electric trolleys abandoned 2500 miles of track 80% trolley routes replaced by bus lines Mid 1920s 70,000 buses operating in U.S. http://www.picturehistory.com/images/products/0/0/2/prod_279.jpg

American Heroes “Lucky Lindy” – specially built plane, the Spirit of St. Louis - no copilot, no computer race NY to Paris = $25,000 prize 1903 Orville and Wilbur Wright Americans everywhere waited eagerly for news 27,000 columns of info printed in first few days

Charles Lindbergh http://campsmoke.files.wordpress.com/2009/08/lindbergh.jpg

33 ½ hours later landed Lindbergh brought home on a Navy cruiser; Congressional Medal of Honor, parades in every state Lindbergh proof of solid moral values remained modest, calm, refused offers of millions in publicity fees

Amelia Earhart 1932 flew across Atlantic alone 1935 solo from Hawaii to California 1937 attempting to fly around the world disappeared somewhere in Pacific Ocean http://www.rmutphysics.com/charud/naturemystery/sci3/boeing/timeline.htm

Heroes of Sports $1 million tickets sales – boxers Jack Dempsey and George Carpentier in 1921 – Dempsey won George Herman “Babe” Ruth “Sultan of Swat” set records in hitting, pitching and outfielding (1927 – 60 homerun record) Gertrude Ederle record in freestyle swimming – 1924 gold medal (Olympics) – 1926 swam 35 mile wide English Channel (beat men’s record by two hours)