21:2 Twenties Woman. Women in the 20’s WWI + flu = live it up Asserted independence Rejected...

21:2 Twenties Woman

Women in the 20’s

• WWI + flu = live it up• Asserted independence• Rejected traditional values• Demanded freedom

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Flappers

• Dress• Hair• Assertive• marriage

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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

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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

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RADIO

• Powerful• Live• Politics• Sports

Fads of the 1920’s

• People had time and money for leisure activities

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Sports Heroes 1920’s pg. 654

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1920s Movies

• Jazz Singer• Steamboat Willie• “talkies”

1920s Musicians

• George Gershwin

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1920’s Artists

• Georgia O’Keeffe

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1920’s Authors

• Sinclair Lewis• F. Scott Fitzgerald• Ernest Hemingway

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21:4 Harlem Renaissance

Great Migration

• Push/pull factors• Effect of northern

cities

NAACP

• W.E.B. DuBois• Protest racial violence• Anti lynching laws

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Harlem Renaissance

• Harlem-Capital of Black America• Conditions• Celebration of African American Culture

Harlem RenaissanceLiterary Movement

• Themes: pride, trials, tribulations• Claude McKay• Langston Hughes

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Jazz Age

• New Orleans• Ragtime and

vocal blues• Louis Armstrong• Duke Ellington• Cotton Club• Bessie Smith

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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

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