Sunday, March 16, 2008

Chapter 24 1 3/12/08 (Special Thanks to Katy)

Labor saving devices liberate women from the kitchen

Making from scratch takes a lot of time

New devices gives women more time

Time to spend… getting rights!

Businesses catering specifically to women

Designed by women, for women: very, very successful

Cosmetics

Regressive Movements

Miss America Pageant in 1921

Designed for Men (Swimsuits, evening wear, etc)

The “Model Female”

But girls are into them- money, prestige

1929- 1/6 marriages end in divorce

People think: “Not due to women’s liberation movement,

“But increased consumerism- raised the expectations of marriage to an idealized version that couldn’t be unachieved.”  (Magazines, Television, Radio, etc)

Men say “I must want that.”

Women say “I must be like that.”

UNATTAINABLE

Job Opportunities:

Still “domestic”

1/3 Graduate Degrees to women

But only 4% of professors are women

Can’t get into law/medical school

Having babies removes women from work place

Can’t get the raise, get the experience- while the men can

Hard to get back into a job (medicine)

75% of all black females are in “domestic service”

Women in congress increase

But in the role of their husband (step in)

Alice Robertson (OH) resides over House of Rep in place of her husband after he dies (for 30 min)

Rebecca Feltan (GA) did something like that for a day


After WWI we want another state of Isolation

“Return to Normalcy”- Harding, Coolage, Hoover

WHY:

Money!

Everyone owes us money. (France, GB, Italy)

We need to help Europe- so they can buy our products.

Germany can’t pay back war Reparations

Troops from France and Belgium go into the Ruhr valley

USA gives Germany a loan

INTEREST!

Dawes Plan 1924-1926

Helps Germany with their debt

Forgives 80% of Italy’s debt and interest goes down to .4%

Forgive 40% of French, 1.6% interest

Young Plan

Reduces German debt to 8 Billion

18th Amendment 1919

“Noble Experiment”

Lasts about 15 years with numerous violation

Evolution v. Creation

Scopes Monkey trial: Dayton Tennessee

John Scopes decides to teach Evolution with backing of ACLU

School district=pissed

Darrow is Scopes lawyer- agnostic for ACLU

Bryan is lawyer for school district- fundamentalist

Dies after winning

Fundamental Christians are ridiculed in press

Scopes is forced to leave, fined but doesn’t have to pay

Rise of Black Nationalism

Blacks join army ranks

Discover France accepts blacks

Feels they should have the same kind of privileges as they’d had

Booker T. Washington believes in gradualism

W. E. B. DeBois believes in confrontation if need be

Marcus Garby founds UNIA (Universal Negro Improvement Association)

1920 have a national convention in Harlem

Separatism

KKK erupts again

1915 (b/c of history teacher)

Col. Simmons of GA

Becomes regiolalized

South= Anti-Black

West/Mid-West= Anti-Catholic (anti-hispanic)

East= Anti- Semitic

LA= Anti-Urban

ALL ARE ANTI-IMMIGRATION

Terrorism, torture, murder. 

But few white jurors would find KKK members guilty


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