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☆☆☆☆☆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.
Oklahoma Dust Bowl farmers who migrated to California to find work.
Payments from the government
keep voters informed about women's issues
and to educate women to be better voters
A shantytown built by unemployed and destitute people during the Depression of the early 1930s.
Social attitudes about women made change difficult.
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Social attitudes in the past were opposed to independent women.
Some of the reasons for the founding of the NAACP were:
- The desire to oppose racism
- African Americans' desire for more opportunities
- Jim Crow laws
- Segregation laws
Isolationism grew out of xenophobia.
In "The Negro Digs Up His Past," Arthur Schomburg is discussing the he study of the history of African Americans.
W. E. B. DuBois helped to found the NAACP.
National Woman Suffrage Association was created in 1869.
He did not believe that equality could be achieved
artistic achievement would help end prejudice
Langston Hughes (L.H)
Normalcy
Pullman porters needed a union because they were not treated well.
