1. Society in the 1920s Angela Brown
Society in the 1920s
Angela Brown

2. 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

3. Women’s Changing Roles
The Flapper Image
Shorter dresses
“bobbed” hair
tight fitting hats
make-up
smoked/drank in public

4. 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

5. 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 (Husbands had been governors)

6. Cities and Suburbs
Demographics – are the statistics that describe a population, such as data on race or income
Movement continued from rural areas to cities

7. African Americans in the North
Many new job opportunities opened up for African Americans in the North.
%; %; % 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

8. 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

9. 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.

10. 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

11. Charles Lindbergh

12. 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

13. 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

14. 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)