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During the Great Depression, black women's clubs began to move towards "structural change and electoral politics". [77] The National Council of Negro Women (NCNW) became a dominant group in the women's club movement in African-American circles. [77]
Black women served a particularly radical role through the furthering of working-class women's movements. The Great Depression had particularly strong effects on the Black community in the 1920s and 30s, forcing Black women to reckon with their relationship to the U.S. government.
Women's support for international missionary activity peaked in the 1900 to 1930 era. The Great Depression caused a dramatic cut back in funding for missions. Mainstream denominations generally transitioned to support for locally -controlled missions.
Historians describe two waves of feminism in history: the first in the 19 th century, growing out of the anti-slavery movement, and the second, in the 1960s and 1970s. Women have made great ...
A few women were elected to office, but none became especially prominent during this time period. Overall, the women's rights movement was dormant in the 1920s, since Susan B. Anthony and the other prominent activists had died, and apart from Alice Paul few younger women came along to replace them.
Great Depression: 1929–1941 ... young women's fashions of the 1920s set both a trend ... of the progressive movement in the South in the 1920s involving increased ...
Catt implemented what was known as the "society plan," a successful effort to recruit wealthy members of the women's club movement whose time, money and experience could help build the suffrage movement. [161] By 1914, women's suffrage was endorsed by the national General Federation of Women's Clubs. [162]
Labor feminism was a women's movement in the United States that emerged in the 1920s, focused on gaining rights in the workplace and unions. Labor feminists advocated for protectionist legislation and special benefits for women, a variant of social feminism .