The Changing Role of Women Good Times! – drink, go out women want to keep jobs initially loose to returning veterans expanding economy created jobs by th Amendment - suffrage Few women became flappers cut their hair (bob) wore short dresses smoked drank stayed out late lived in cities

men & women date casually and unsupervised women still expected to behave better than men (double standard) some begin to view marriage as an equal partnership Margaret Sanger – birth control – smaller families new inventions & products to help housewives clothes, sliced bread, canned goods children spend more years in school, don’t have to work HS enrollment rose to 4 million; offer vocational training

Aviators Charles Lindberg The Spirit of Saint Louis flew across the Atlantic Ocean alone Amelia Earhart first woman to fly across the Atlantic

Spectator Sports and Leisure Time Most popular sports: Baseball Babe Ruth - hero Boxing Jack Johnson First AA heavyweight champ Jack Dempsey

Movies Silent Films popular way to escape the Depression Hollywood became center of industry “Talkies” movies with sound “Gone with the Wind”, “The Wizard of Oz”, “Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs”, “Mr. Smith Goes to Washington” Clark Gable, James Cagney, Fred Astaire, Ginger Rogers, Marlene Dietrich The Jazz Singer first movie with sound

The Jazz Age popular music form that blended several music forms of the South often composed on the spot Louis Armstrong prominent jazz musician Bessie Smith “The Empress of Blues” Cotton Club Famous nightclub in Harlem during Prohibition

Lost Generation writers deeply affected by WWI, many chose to live in Paris F. Scott Fitzgerald’s The Great Gatsby pictures of life at the time glamorous characters Ernest Hemingway war experiences Sinclair Lewis empty lives of middle class of time cost of success

Marcus Garvey Universal Negro Improvement Association (UNIA) blacks helping blacks, no whites build up AA economic success Back to Africa Movement AA should move to Africa and create a NEW empire

The GREAT Migration poverty and racial discrimination in the South jobs open up in the North during WWI AA moved North by the 1000s

Harlem Renaissance writers, thinkers, musicians, artists move to Harlem cultural rebirth Langston Hughes AA poet black pride and hope Zora Neale Hurston AA writer many topics including AA folklore

Prohibition resentment of Prohibition speakeasies & bootleggers mobsters  Al Capone rise in crime  people are outraged 21 st Amendment (1933) repealed the 18 th Amendment

Fundamentalism Protestant movement – interpret the Bible LITERALLY many revivals Billy Sunday and Ammie Semple McPherson only knowledge you need is the Bible rejects Darwin’s theory of evolution

Fundamentalist don’t want taught in public school several states outlaw it violation of separation of church and state???? Scopes Monkey Trial John Scopes, biology teacher, taught evolution in protest at the encouragement of the ACLU Williams Jennings Bryan vs. Clarence Darrow (ACLU) becomes a trial a bout fundamentalism Bryan on the stand  admits the Bible might be open to interpretation Darwin’s Theory of Evolution

Radio almost all families owned one soap operas for housewives children’s programs in the afternoon variety of shows for everyone in evening begin to get news October 30, 1938 – US invaded by Martians Orson Wells Fireside Chats – FDR addresses the nation – like he’s in your home…