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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.
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Social attitudes about women made change difficult.
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
In "The Negro Digs Up His Past," Arthur Schomburg is discussing the he study of the history of African Americans.
Puerto Ricans mostly immigrated to New York City.
W. E. B. DuBois helped to found the NAACP.
Fundamentalists
When Jack Johnson achieved success as a professional boxer most whites were surprised and upset.
They were inspired to form a new Ku Klux Klan.
Jack Johnson achieved success as a professional boxer at the age of 20.
Support for african American suffrage.
Mexicans Americans were targeted
Socialism
