Flappers in the 1920's
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Fashion for women took a modern turn in the 1920’s with new perceptions of the way women should act. Women cut their hair wore short skirts and listened to jazz. This also caused a change in behavior, women became more independent and less reliant on men. The flapper smoked cigarettes, drank prohibited liquor, and dressed in clothes considered too revealing by previous generations. The Flappers also pursued social freedoms.
Margaret Sanger
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Margaret Sanger is the person and she is famous for invented birth control and planned parenthood. Margaret sanger represents the 1920’s because of her work for birth control and planned parenthood. The lasting impact Margaret Sanger had on the future was making people use more birth control and becoming part of planned parenthood. Amazingly Margaret Sanger made a big impact for many woman because thanks to her, women now have the option to have kids or not. She also made a great impact by giving young woman of all ages the opportunity to protect themselves in many ways by lending them very informative information with planned parenthood.
Bessie Smith
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Bessie Smith was an African American singer who sang at a young age. Bessie was among one of the highest- paid black performers in her time. In the 1920’s she got married with a man named Jack Gee and it was not long after Columbia Records discovered her and her talent and offered her a contract. Smith then became popular by selling her track titled “Downhearted Blues,” it was so wildly popular that she sold 800,000 copies and that was what won her the Blues spotlight. Smith became a popular recording artist and toured extensively. Although her career seemt to go into her highest times it was a couple years after that things became too downfall for her. In 1929 she separated with her husband and 2 years after she left columbia records. In 1933 Bessie signed another contract with a producer named John Hammond, that then led to the Swing Era. It was then on the year 1937 where her and her companion of many years, Richard Morgan, had a very disastrous car accident which eventually with all the injuries and wounds led to her death in Clarksdale, Mississippi Hospital. Although her death was a tragedy to many of her fans she lived on with her music she left behind. Smith still won over new fans and continued to sell extremely well over the years. Bessie Smith was also a primary influence towards young vocalists who want to fulfill their dreams in the Blues road.