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21:2 Twenties Woman
Women in the 20’s
• WWI + flu = live it up• Asserted independence• Rejected traditional values• Demanded freedom
Flappers
• Dress• Hair• Assertive• marriage
Double Standard
• Flappers-more of an image than reality• Courting changed to casual dating• Women caught between old and new standards
20’s work opportunities for women
• Post war opportunities
• Women’s professions• Clerical workers• Breaking stereotypes• Inequality and
Discrimination in workplace
“Best Thing Since Sliced Bread”
• Refers to great innovations
Changing American Families
• Children in school-Child Labor Laws• Working women
Rebellious Adolescents AKA Pains in the Butt
• Strain on families• More time with peers and less at home• Resist parental control
21:3 Education and Popular Culture
Bell Ringerpg. 653
1920’s Changes in Education
• “High School Movement”– Increased attendance– Vocational needs– Immigrants + literacy
1920s Mass Media
• Shapes American culture• National Newspapers• Mass circulation
magazines
RADIO
• Powerful• Live• Politics• Sports
Fads of the 1920’s
• People had time and money for leisure activities
Sports Heroes 1920’s pg. 654
1920s Movies
• Jazz Singer• Steamboat Willie• “talkies”
1920s Musicians
• George Gershwin
1920’s Authors
• Sinclair Lewis• F. Scott Fitzgerald• Ernest Hemingway
21:4 Harlem Renaissance
Great Migration
• Push/pull factors• Effect of northern
cities
NAACP
• W.E.B. DuBois• Protest racial violence• Anti lynching laws
Harlem Renaissance
• Harlem-Capital of Black America• Conditions• Celebration of African American Culture
Harlem RenaissanceLiterary Movement
• Themes: pride, trials, tribulations• Claude McKay• Langston Hughes
Jazz Age
• New Orleans• Ragtime and
vocal blues• Louis Armstrong• Duke Ellington• Cotton Club• Bessie Smith
Tin Pan Alley
• Songwriting and publishing companies of the early 20th century
• Irving Berlin
Irving Berlin
• Composer and lyricist• 3000 songs• White Christmas/God Bless America