The Changing Role of WomenGood Times! – drink, go outwomen want to keep jobs

initially loose to returning veterans

expanding economy created jobs by 1930

19th Amendment - suffrageFew women became flappers

cut their hair (bob)wore short dressessmokeddrankstayed out latelived in cities

men & women date casually and unsupervised

women still expected to behave better than men (double standard)

some begin to view marriage as an equal partnership

Margaret Sanger – birth control –smaller families

new inventions & products to help housewivesclothes, sliced bread, canned

goodschildren spend more years in school,

don’t have to workHS enrollment rose to 4 million; offer

vocational training

AviatorsCharles Lindberg

The Spirit of Saint Louis

flew across the Atlantic Ocean alone

Amelia Earhartfirst woman to fly

across the Atlantic

Spectator Sports and Leisure Time

Most popular sports:Baseball

Babe Ruth - heroBoxing

Jack Johnson First AA

heavyweight champJack Dempsey

MoviesSilent Films

popular way to escape the DepressionHollywood became center of industry

“Talkies”movies with sound“Gone with the Wind”, “The Wizard of

Oz”, “Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs”, “Mr. Smith Goes to Washington”

Clark Gable, James Cagney, Fred Astaire, Ginger Rogers, Marlene Dietrich

The Jazz Singerfirst movie with sound

The Jazz Agepopular music form that

blended several music forms of the Southoften composed on the spot

Louis Armstrongprominent jazz musician

Bessie Smith“The Empress of Blues”

Cotton ClubFamous nightclub in

Harlem during Prohibition

Lost Generationwriters deeply affected by WWI,

many chose to live in ParisF. Scott Fitzgerald’s The Great

Gatsbypictures of life at the timeglamorous characters

Ernest Hemingwaywar experiences

Sinclair Lewisempty lives of middle class of

timecost of success

Marcus GarveyUniversal Negro

Improvement Association (UNIA)blacks helping blacks,

no whitesbuild up AA economic

successBack to Africa

MovementAA should move to

Africa and create a NEW empire

The GREAT Migration

poverty and racial discrimination in the South

jobs open up in the North during WWI

AA moved North by the 1000s

Harlem Renaissancewriters, thinkers,

musicians, artists move to Harlem

cultural rebirthLangston Hughes

AA poetblack pride and hope

Zora Neale HurstonAA writermany topics including AA

folklore

Prohibitionresentment of

Prohibitionspeakeasies &

bootleggersmobsters Al Caponerise in crime people

are outraged21st Amendment

(1933)repealed the 18th

Amendment

FundamentalismProtestant movement –

interpret the Bible LITERALLY

many revivalsBilly Sunday and Ammie

Semple McPhersononly knowledge you need

is the Biblerejects Darwin’s theory

of evolution

Fundamentalist don’t want taught in public school

several states outlaw itviolation of separation of church and

state????Scopes Monkey Trial

John Scopes, biology teacher, taught evolution in protest at the encouragement of the ACLU

Williams Jennings Bryan vs. Clarence Darrow (ACLU)

becomes a trial a bout fundamentalismBryan on the stand admits the Bible

might be open to interpretation

Darwin’s Theory of Evolution

Radio

almost all families owned one

soap operas for housewives

children’s programs in the afternoon

variety of shows for everyone in evening

begin to get newsOctober 30, 1938 – US

invaded by MartiansOrson Wells

Fireside Chats – FDR addresses the nation – like he’s in your home…