the roaring twenties Ahh, the 1920's where women expressed their freedom and individuality, along with the prohibition of alcohol and secret speakeasies and the decade that was such a humble abode for Al Capone. Jazz was created in this age, the discovery is credited to African Americans and this new taste of music blew up in Chicago and New York. Some famous musicians developed like Louis Armstrong, Duke Ellington, and Ella Fitzgerald. The spread of Jazz encouraged the invention of the radio in 1932, everyone loved radios because they could listen to music in the comfort of their own homes. African Americans weren't really played on the radio for as long as White Jazz artists. Bessie Smith, and Florence Mills were some popular artists that became famous because of the radio. In urban areas, such as Chicago and New York, African American jazz was played on the radio more often than in the suburbs. There was a youth rebellion in the 1920s fads like bold fashion statements and Flappers, women smoking cigarettes, free talk about sex, and new radio concerts. Women’s suffrage at its peak with the ratification of the Nineteenth Amendment on August 18, 1920, and the entrance of the flapper, women began to make a statement within society and the Jazz Age was not immune to these new ideals. With women now taking part in the work force after the end of the First World War there were many more possibilities for women in terms of social life and entertainment. This era was important in America because it started Women's rights and gave youth individuality which set up the generations in the future.
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