Women and African Americans during the

1920s

Describe the changing roles and perceptions of women in the late

1920s

• Right to vote (19th amendment)– suffragists

• Flappers– Hairstyles; the bob– Make up– Dancing; the Charleston

• Increased participation in the workforce

• Increased educational opportunities– More women attending and graduating

from colleges and universities.

Great Migration

Many African Americans began to move North and West during WWI and continued to move North throughout the 20s.

- Low paying jobs in the south.- Better employment opportunities in northern

industrial cities.

- Discrimination- Violence in the South and North- Race riots (Tulsa, OK 1921) - segregation

- Rural to Urban migration- Movement into the cities.

Harlem Renaissance

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9idqeiACqn4&feature=fvw

Harlem RenaissanceAfrican American artists, writers, and

musiciansbased in Harlem revealed the freshness and

variety of African American culture.Art

Jacob Lawrence, painter who chronicled the experiences of the Great Migration north through art

LiteratureLangston Hughes, poet who combined the experiences of African and American cultural roots

MusicDuke Ellington and Louis Armstrong, jazz composers; Bessie Smith, blues singer

Popularity of these artists spread to the rest of society.