African American Women In The 1920's

Imagine you are in a time with dirty water and cold lunches in school. That is what the women in Progressive Era wanted to reform for clean water, trash collections, and hot lunches at schools. The Progressive Era was from the 1890’s to the 1920’s. Women in the Progressive Era faced many challenges so the women in middle class wanted the reform and change the way they were treated. They made a women’s organization and many legislations. To begin, the Progressive Era was in the 1890’s to the 1920’s. Waves and waves of immigrants came to America. America had rapid growth in urbanization and industrialization. The civilization crowded tenements and slums. This caused high-level diseases and high levels of a baby’s mortality. This is when the women in the Progressive Era stepped in. The women wanted to improve the living and working conditions. Ida Tarbell exposed unfair practices. …show more content…
White married women were not allowed to work. The women that could work were the women that were single, young, divorced, colored women or the poor white women. These women could do agriculture, work in factories, serve as servants (mostly African-Americans). The middle-class women could be a typist, clerk or a telephone operator. Few college educated women could be lawyers, doctors, journalists, or scientists. Moving on, the middle-class women wanted the reform and change the way the women were treated. “New Woman” were young, college educated, active in sports, pursuing careers or married based on equality. The women wanted to reform to share intellect and creativity. The “moral guardian” exercises their moral authority. Women wanted to reform to get clean water, trash collections, hot lunches at school, playgrounds, public libraries, and sanitation. The women volunteer their time to create local organizations. They wanted their organization to be local then pass on to the state, and soon be a national