Women and politics 1915-1940

19th amendment and immigrant+ southern AAs Immigrant women Remained disenfranchised.
AAs unable to vote due to discrim and
intimidation
Reaction of women to 19th amendment -married women- voted the same as husband
-working-class women- focused on every day
survival
Eleanor Roosevelt Role model for women, joined the league of
women's voters in 1921, took staunch approach
to anti-lynching where FDR could only be
lukewarm
Social improvements in this -Shepard Towner Act 1921- funding for
maternity and infant education, terminated in
period? 1929
-legislation to ban child employment under
14 + an 8 hour day for women- rejected by
supreme court in 1922 due to pressure from
businesses
The flappers Young women in 1920s dressing and acting in
radical way
-had little impact on social spheres
M Carey Thomas -AA woman
-founded Bryn Mawr summer school 1921
-school for working class women
The birth control controversy
Comstock laws 1873 Made the sale and advertisement of
contraceptives illegal
Marget Sanger -started crusade for women's rights in 1912 with
newspaper advice for contraceptives
-opened her first birth control clinic in NYC
1916- closed by the police
-established American Birth Control League
(ABCL) in 1921
- 1924 ABCL 27,500 members- only in 8 states
End of Comstock laws 1938 -banned by federal gov
-state laws still enforced laws on contraceptives