The 1920's (less) happy
- United States, 1920. The nineteenth Amendment to the Constitution was adopted and, consequently, women gained the right to vote. So the happy, crazy 1920's started fine and would be especially happy for women.
Gordon A. According to historian Craig (1913-2005): “In all countries, the First World War weakened orthodoxy and all the authorities and, when it was completed, neither the government, nor the church, nor the school, nor the family had the strength of yesteryear to regulate the lives of human beings (…). This particularly benefited women. (…) Taboos intended to appear only in public places, to consume alcohol or tobacco and to have sex before marriage lost strength. Women were no longer subjected to the tyranny of society.” They cut their hair and their skirts, replaced their corsés with comfortable clothes of wide hips, put on their pants, smoked their cigarettes and drank alcohol; took the public space, lost by shame; the economic boom and the power of consumption increased independence from those powers; advanced into sexual freedom with new contraceptives...That was the flapper, the stereotype of the happy years of the new woman.
The reality, however, was very different. Then important steps were taken, paths were opened that would be addressed, but in that decade few women of the world danced the charlestone.
In the United States, not all women could vote; Blacks, both men and women, could get their right to vote in 1967. One of the most powerful public images of the time, Josephine Baker, was American and black, and in Europe, in Paris, he made the path he was denied in the United States.
In addition, in the other countries there was no U.S. economic bloom. Losing the losers, most of the victors lost a lot in the battle, and it was years to get out of the hole. Nor was it a pagotxa for the women of some countries that did not participate in the war, such as Spain, who suffered the dictatorship of Primo de Rivera since 1923. The United States was the real economic victor, but also there only a small elite could put the liberating clothes of Coco Chanel. And in the 1929 crisis, that bubble swollen by the war broke out. Therefore, the “new woman” did not represent anyone.
Now, on the eve of another decade of the 20s, it is to be seen whether the coming years are going to leave us with a lot of joyful pictures or whether really “women stop depending on the tyranny of society.”
Copenhagen, 18 December 1974 At 12 noon a ferry arrived at the port, from where a group of about 100 Santa Claus landed. They brought a gigantic geese with them. The idea was to make a kind of “Trojan Goose” and, upon reaching the city, to pull the white beard costumes... [+]
Tennessee (United States), 1820. The slave Nathan Green is born, known as Nearest Uncle or Nearest Uncle. We do not know exactly when he was born and, in general, we have very little data about him until 1863, when he achieved emancipation. We know that in the late 1850s Dan... [+]
New York, 1960. At a UN meeting, Nigeria’s Foreign Minister and UN ambassador Jaja Wachucu slept. Nigeria had just achieved independence on 1 October. Therefore, Wachuku became the first UN representative in Nigeria and had just taken office.
In contradiction to the... [+]
Researchers at Johns Hopkins University have discovered several cylinders with inscriptions at the present Syrian Reservoir, the Tell Umm-el Marra. Experts believe that the signs written in these pieces of clay can be alphabetical.
In the 15th century a. The cylinders have... [+]
London 1928. At the Victoria and Albert Museum there was a very special painting: in the painting there is a black man, with wig and Levite, surrounded by books and scientific instruments. Thus it was catalogued in the Museum: “Unique satirical portrait representing a failed... [+]
Ethiopia, 24 November 1974. Lucy's skeleton was found in Hadar, one of the oldest traces of human ancestors. The Australian hominid of Australopithecus afarensis is between 3.2 and 3.5 million years old.
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A group of archaeologists from the University of Berkeley, California, USA. That is, men didn't launch the lances to hunt mammoths and other great mammals. That was the most widespread hypothesis so far, the technique we've seen in movies, video games ...
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Zamora, late 10th century. On the banks of the Douro River and outside the city walls the church of Santiago de los Caballeros was built. The inside capitals of the church depict varied scenes with sexual content: an orgy, a naked woman holding the penis of a man… in the... [+]
Born 7 November 1924. A group of anarchists broke into Bera this morning to protest against the dictatorship of Primo de Rivera and to begin the revolution in the Spanish state.
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A group of interdisciplinary researchers from the Free University of Berlin and the Zuse Institute have developed a complex mathematical model to better understand how Romanization spread in North Africa.
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Washington (EE.UU. ), 1807. The US Constitution banned transatlantic slave trade. This does not mean that slavery has been abolished, but that the main source of the slaves has been interrupted. Thus, slave women became the only way to “produce” new slaves.
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While working at a site in the Roman era of Normandy, several archaeology students have recently made a curious discovery: inside a clay pot they found a small glass jar, of which women used to bring perfume in the 19th century.
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Japan, 6 and 9 August 1945, the United States launched an atomic bomb causing tens of thousands of deaths in Hiroshima and Nagasaki; although there are no precise figures, the most cautious estimates indicate that at least 210,000 people died at the end of that year. But in... [+]
Born 2 October 1968. A few months earlier, the student movement started on June 22 organized a rally in the Plaza de las Tres Cultura, in the Nonoalco-Tlatelolco unit of the city. The students gathered by the Mexican army and the paramilitary group Olympia Battalion were... [+]