1920 News Show

News:Cordel Bever
"KSUM News this is Cordel Bever reporting from the steps of the Capital Building where the 19th amendment of the constitution was just passed. The state of Tennessee has ratified the amendment, bringing the total to 36 states.                    Women of the United States of America, women who are our sisters, our mothers, our neighbors, and the backbone of American society,                     Now have the right to vote. Crowds have gathered around the Capital Building. They are singing the Star-Spangled Banner. And women are hugging each other and weeping with joy. A group of women are holding a sign with a quote from Susan B. Anthony that reads 'No self respecting women should wish or work for the success of a party that ignores her sex' and now the Republicans and Democrats will be fighting for new voters and the support of women. Later today I will be speaking with Alice Paul the leader of the National Woman's Party who is one of the most well known suffragists in America. We will get her reaction on the passage of the 19th amendment. Ladies and gentlemen today will go down in history as the day women have earned the right to take control of their own destinies.

Cordel Bever, KSUM News."

Flappers in the 1920s

      Before the First World War America's women were known as Gibson Girls, they wouldn't date but instead wait for the perfect man to satisfy their needs. When WWI started most of the young men went off to war, and a lot did not come back. The women during the war took the man's place as the U.S. work force. These huge changes effected U.S. society in a huge way that would lead to a more modern America. When the men came back from the war there were not nearly enough to satisfy the Gibson Girl women's needs, so they decided to just live their lives and enjoy themselves. Thus the flapper was created.

   
       Flappers were first known as women who were still a bit awkward when they danced or moved around, but later changed to a young more foolish girl who would go to dances and parties. The women's image also changed in the 1920's. Instead of wearing long hair and dresses they wore short colorful skirts and cut their hair back in a style called a Shingle or Eton cut. The women also started to use makeup, and lipstick which both became very popular in the 1020s. their attitude became extremely different from the older women of the early 20th century. They were more reckless and took more risks, fast living was the new thing as well as being more sexual towards men.
   
       The age of the flappers had a good run, but ended as quickly as it started in the late 1920s when the stock market crashed and sent the world into the great depression; however, the flapper's changes during that time period continued to change women throughout the next couple of decades.   

 By Cordel Bever
Sources: 
1.http://history1900s.about.com/od/1920s/a/flappers.htm
2.https://blsciblogs.baruch.cuny.edu/his1005/2010/06/28/flappers/