W O M E N. August 26, 1920 – Nineteenth Amendment grants women the right to vote. July, 1848 – Seneca Falls Women’s Rights Convention organized by Elizabeth.

W O M E N

August 26, 1920 – Nineteenth Amendment grants women the right to vote.

July, 1848 – Seneca Falls Women’s Rights Convention organized by Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Lucretia Mott.

72 years!

Women & Women

Women & Women

Traditional – soft-spoken, motherly, reserved.

The Flapper – embraced new fashions and urban attitudes. The “emancipated” woman.

The Fox Trot

The Charleston

Double standard – a set of principles granting greater freedom to men than to women.

Traditionalists in churches and schools protest against the corruption of youth.

Religion: Protestantism

Eighteenth Amendment – January 16th, 1919 outlaws the sale, transportation, importation, exportation, of intoxicating liquors.

Backed by: Church: Protestant Rural South & West Women KKK

Resistance

Speakeasies – underground/hidden saloons and nightclubs for alcohol.

Bootleggers – smugglers who brought alcohol from Canada, Cuba, West Indies.

21st Amendment – December 5, 1933 repeals the 18th Amendment.