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Women of the 1920s

Women of the 1920s. Dr. Stephanie McKinney. What has changed for Women?. As we look at this iconic photograph, what does it tell us about the women? What do we see here that we might not have seen in the 1890s?. Unprecedented opportunity. How do these women…. Unprecedented opportunity.

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Women of the 1920s

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  1. Women of the 1920s Dr. Stephanie McKinney

  2. What has changed for Women? • As we look at this iconic photograph, what does it tell us about the women? • What do we see here that we might not have seen in the 1890s?

  3. Unprecedented opportunity • How do these • women…

  4. Unprecedented opportunity • …become these • women?

  5. Unprecedented opportunity • THE VOTE! • On August 26, 1920, the 19th Amendment granting women the vote was became law.

  6. Unprecedented opportunities • Higher education opens up to women from 1870-1920

  7. Unprecedented Opportunity • In 1920, Margaret Sanger took her censored newspaper column and turned it into a book, making information about birth control available to women for the first time.

  8. Unprecedented Opportunity • Improvements in public health due to: • Women are established in nursing • Increasing numbers of hospitals • Federal funding for women’s health initiative • Maternal/child hygiene movement • A lot of smart women working really hard

  9. Unprecedented opportunities • The bicycle gave women mobility they had not enjoyed before, and further changed fashion.

  10. Unprecedented opportunity • And then there were cars…

  11. Unprecedented opportunity • A girl could get around in a car…

  12. Unprecedented opportunity • And new opportunities for socializing…

  13. What else? • What else were these enfranchised, educated, not-endlessly pregnant, healthy, mobile, socially sophisticated (or not) young ladies up to in the 1920s?

  14. Latina-american Women • Performing Mexican identity on the streets of Los Angeles

  15. Latina-American women • Perhaps some messing around with boys…

  16. latina-American Women • And being flappers…

  17. Latina-American women • And going to segregated schools

  18. African-American women • Joined Marcus Garvey and the U.N.I.A

  19. African-American women • A social movement for the whole family…

  20. African-American women • Attending a football game at Howard University

  21. African-American women • Protesting lynching, busting trusts and other social reform

  22. One more… • And then there was that other popular social movement of the 1920s…

  23. Women of the klan • The revitalization of the Klan had opportunities for women too

  24. The NAACP came to Akron, Ohio in 1917, the Klan in 1921

  25. The end

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