During the 1920s, women everywhere experienced extreme changes in standards: urban fashions emerged, public drinking and sexual conversation was engaged, attitudes toward marriage changed, and new jobs became available. Many women took advantage of these new freedoms and became flappers, however not all women shared the same view on the matter. Traditionalists in churches and schools protested the new casual dances and women’s acceptance of smoking or drinking, and the Women’s Christian Temperance Union was the group who pushed the hardest for Prohibition. Also in the 1920s, a large number of immigrant families began sending their children to school, increasing the number of literate Americans; however, these immigrants were highly discriminated against, getting paid less to work more than the average American and being forced to live in smaller, more dangerous communities than whites. Black Americans began voicing their pride in what was known as the Harlem Renaissance, revealing the richness of African American culture, however lynching still was not outlawed in the US and segregation separated white and black Americans in public.
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