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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.
The study of the past based on what people left behind is called history.
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Social attitudes in the past were opposed to independent women.
Racial discrimination and poverty were issues that encouraged Communist Party membership.
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.
The policy of Fordism affect workers because they gained higher wages and could buy more goods.
W. E. B. DuBois helped to found the NAACP.
He did not believe that equality could be achieved
Langston Hughes (L.H)
Promote African American pride
Pullman porters needed a union because they were not treated well.
