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Gas stations began being built, giving plenty of people jobs not only at the gas stations but in the oil fields as well.
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Founded so that large corporations could pay taxes for schools and advocacy for teachers.
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Because of the return of the World War I troops, many people decided to have children which led to higher elementary enrollments in the 1920's.
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Following WWI, many feared the intervention of communism in the education system. The schools would have their administration sign oaths to ensure they would not resort to communism.
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Small teacher unions created the CSFT to enhance American values through the public education system. They were anti-immigration.
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The Black Sox Scandal of 1919 occurred when accusations of a “fix” was on during the first inning of the game. Eight members of the White Sox team, Eddie Cicotte, Claude Williams, Joe Jackson, Happy Felsch, Chick Gandil, Swede Risberg, Buck Weaver, and Fred McMullin, were accused of being in on the fix.
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The game in question was the Fall Classic against the Cincinnati Reds. The White Sox members were tipped off before the game and suspensions were in the air until 1920 when the confessions came out from the members that the game was fixed.
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All of the players involved were banned from the sport and given the nickname of “Black Sox”. To this day, they are banned from the Baseball Hall of Fame.
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"Regardless of the verdict of juries, no player that throws a ball game, no player that entertains proposals or promises to throw a game, no player that sits in a conference with a bunch of crooked players and gamblers where the ways and means of throwing games are discussed, and does not promptly tell his club about it, will ever play professional baseball." - Commissioner Kenesaw Mountain Landis
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Education started to focus on the development of the children.
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Manufacturing became popular due to the rising automotive industry.
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Motels were originally made for campers to pitch their tents and stay for the night.
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Men typically worked as farmers, doctors or lawyers.
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Women typically worked a teachers, nurses, and librarians. Some worked in the textile-mills and on the farms.
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The mass-manufacturing company, Ford, began hiring cheap, unskilled workers (women), to save money by paying them at extremely low wages.
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Women began taking over occupations that were traditionally men's such as factory workers.
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The majority of youth helped in their family farms or worked as messengers, apprentices or in factories.
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The number of women attending college increased by 47%. There was almost an equal number of females and males attending college at this time.
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In the 1920s, railroads developed new programs for tourists.
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Comfortable Pullman cars for spending the night in and better food service in dining cars were put into use to help make traveling more bearable.
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Streetcars for a ride to the destined hotel or resort became more widely used as at that time, few towns and cities had streetcar systems.
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In North Carolina during the 1920s, the creation of all-weather highways brought together regions and helped those who lived in towns and cities travel.
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Movement to deport or arrest radical leftists. They were seen as a threat to society.
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The School of Education becomes the College of Education.
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The influence of Art Decoratifs and the emerging Modernist movement
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The chemise or shift dress, was to become the dominant line for day and evening wear.
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Exposure of women’s legs made interest in women’s hosiery, and stocking sales went through the roof.
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During the colder days, women would wear a wrap-over coat or jacket/cardigan with a blouse and a pleated skirt and of course the cloche hat.
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Summer afternoons the common choice was a basic shift dress (now often sleeveless) with a decolletage often as low as an evening dress.
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T-straps, Ankle Straps, and Pumps.
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Long-line elasticated smooth corsets replaced the old laced affairs
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Helena Rubinstein and Elizabeth Arden becoming household names and brands like Maybelline, Tangee and Coty being used by ladies.
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The cupids bow lips, heavily rouged cheeks and kohl shadowed eyes
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Featured regularly in magazines and the 1920s beauty guides were new ‘American-style-beauty as evoked by Hollywood was the ‘image idéale’ to be achieved
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After a long struggle to be able to pass this amendment, it is finally ratified! Women are now allowed to vote and no U.S. citizen shall be denied the right to do so.
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Far more to women’s fashion in the 1920’s than the iconic Flapper look of bobbed hair, long necklaces, cloche hats, flapper slang and dancing to the ‘Charleston’ ! The amazing and creative styles in dress, hair, swimwear, shoes were huge!
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1921, Model T Fords were the most popular, due to their their reasonable price and reliability.
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First proposed by the National Woman's political party in 1923, the Equal Rights Amendment was to provide for the legal equality of the sexes and prohibit discrimination on the basis of sex.
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The College offers master's degree programs in General and Agricultural Education.
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In Wyoming, Nellie Tayloe Ross becomes the first woman elected as a governor in the United States.
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The World Exposition of Women’s Progress opens in Chicago
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The Scholastic Aptitude Test is first administered. It is based on the Army Alpha test.
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The ‘Ford Dress’ by Vogues editor (a suggestion that it would become as popular as the Ford car) Its flattering silhouette suited just about any shape of a woman
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The Jazz Singer, the first movie with sound, is released!!!
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Women compete for the first time in Olympic field events.
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The College of Education offers courses in Child Development
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Jean Piaget's The Child's Conception of the World is published. His theory of cognitive development becomes an important influence in American developmental psychology and education.
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The number of musicians started to rise to provide a way for an escape during the great depression.
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The stock market crashes, marking the beginning of the Great Depression.
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Alvarez vs. the Board of Trustees of the Lemon Grove (California) School District becomes the first successful school desegregation court case in the United States, as the local court forbids the school district from placing Mexican-American children in a separate "Americanization" school.
