The 1920s were an age of dramatic social and political change. The nation’s total wealth more than doubled between 1920 and 1929, and this economic growth swept many Americans into an affluent “consumer society.” Many Americans were uncomfortable with this new, urban, sometimes racy “mass culture” but many people lived in the moment surrounded by the newest kitchen appliances, shorter skirts and lots of alcohol. Although technology, culture, and science were advancing, life wasn’t always “the bees knees.” Racism and segregation was still a continuous issue especially with the rise of the new KKK, woman were advocating a new way of feminism that was promiscuous and non- traditional, and rising intellectual thought often sparked by Darwin’s
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A wave of violent racial confrontations began to emerge in the 1920s. Racism was at a high in the 20’s because most whites wanted to purify the USA and advocate “100% Americanism”. The KKK acted with violence and terrorized anyone that didn’t fit their image of “white, Anglo- Saxon, [or] Protestant”. The membership of the Ku Klux Klan was largest in the South and had about 4 million members. Many blacks were lynched because of this party. Although blacks had access to bathrooms, schools, and restaurants, everything was separated. Laws were made where blacks were “Separate but Equal”. Consequences as race riots were an issue, especially the Chicago Race Riot where a white mob angrily stoned a young black teenager that floated too far into the “White Only” part of Lake Michigan due to a current. From 1916 to 1970, African-Americans began moving to Northern cities to be free of segregation laws. By 1919, over a million blacks had migrated to northeastern cities including Detroit, Chicago and New York. Discrimination was still prevalent in the North, however. The increasing population in Northern cities amplified competition for jobs and housing. Blacks were denied skilled jobs and had to live in congested communities with pitiable education standards. Resentment grew and racism would …show more content…
The roles of American Women in the 1920’s varied considerably between the “New Woman” and the Traditionalists of the older generation. Flappers, embraced new fashions, personal freedom and new ideas that challenged the traditional role of women. They drank, smoked, and danced and spoke provocatively. Woman bobbed their hair and showed off more skin with their shorter skirts.The Traditionalists feared that the “New Morality” of the era was threatening family values and the conventional role of women in the home. Divorce went up and marriage went down. Young woman claimed it was a new way of feminism and care free. Women in the 1920’s were all affected by the rise of Consumerism in America and were influenced by mass advertising campaigns via magazines, newspapers, the radio and the movies. The Roaring Twenties heralded a period of prosperity for many and access to electricity provided American women with the power required to run new labor saving appliances and enjoy the new inventions and innovations of the period. The defiant and rebellious ways of woman during the 20’s encompassed the “Flaming young mentality”. Woman proved to men and even traditional woman that woman shouldn’t be confined to just to the household and
A wave of violent racial confrontations began to emerge in the 1920s. Racism was at a high in the 20’s because most whites wanted to purify the USA and advocate “100% Americanism”. The KKK acted with violence and terrorized anyone that didn’t fit their image of “white, Anglo- Saxon, [or] Protestant”. The membership of the Ku Klux Klan was largest in the South and had about 4 million members. Many blacks were lynched because of this party. Although blacks had access to bathrooms, schools, and restaurants, everything was separated. Laws were made where blacks were “Separate but Equal”. Consequences as race riots were an issue, especially the Chicago Race Riot where a white mob angrily stoned a young black teenager that floated too far into the “White Only” part of Lake Michigan due to a current. From 1916 to 1970, African-Americans began moving to Northern cities to be free of segregation laws. By 1919, over a million blacks had migrated to northeastern cities including Detroit, Chicago and New York. Discrimination was still prevalent in the North, however. The increasing population in Northern cities amplified competition for jobs and housing. Blacks were denied skilled jobs and had to live in congested communities with pitiable education standards. Resentment grew and racism would …show more content…
The roles of American Women in the 1920’s varied considerably between the “New Woman” and the Traditionalists of the older generation. Flappers, embraced new fashions, personal freedom and new ideas that challenged the traditional role of women. They drank, smoked, and danced and spoke provocatively. Woman bobbed their hair and showed off more skin with their shorter skirts.The Traditionalists feared that the “New Morality” of the era was threatening family values and the conventional role of women in the home. Divorce went up and marriage went down. Young woman claimed it was a new way of feminism and care free. Women in the 1920’s were all affected by the rise of Consumerism in America and were influenced by mass advertising campaigns via magazines, newspapers, the radio and the movies. The Roaring Twenties heralded a period of prosperity for many and access to electricity provided American women with the power required to run new labor saving appliances and enjoy the new inventions and innovations of the period. The defiant and rebellious ways of woman during the 20’s encompassed the “Flaming young mentality”. Woman proved to men and even traditional woman that woman shouldn’t be confined to just to the household and