During the 1920's the flappers represented a change in the American woman in society. They started showing skin with shorter skirts. They started wearing shorter hair and makeup. The skinny boyish figure was stylish at this time and, in some cases, so was unisex fashion. They drank, smoked, cursed, danced, participated in petting parties, and engaged in other activities seen as scandalous by the society of the day.
Social attitudes about women made change difficult.
Some of the reasons for the founding of the NAACP were:
He did not believe that equality could be achieved
Promote African American pride
Migrated to jobs in automobile manufacturing
emma goldman and other radicals were forced to leave the country APEX :)
Pullman porters needed a union because they were not treated well.