Throughout most of history women generally have had fewer legal rights and career opportunities than men. During the 1920's, most women were still expected to stay at home and look after the children. Cooking, cleaning, and taking care of the house and kids was all women were expected to do. Being a housewife and mother were regarded as women's most important duties. Women wanted to be able to have the freedom that men had. They wanted to

be able to vote and work if they wanted to. Women fought for and to a large degree accomplished a reevaluation of traditional views of their role in society. The battle of women’s suffrages was coming to an end

listen to the news, music, comedy, dramas, sports, and more. It also did advertising for businesses and products. The first public radio broadcasting station opened in Pittsburgh, 1922. (Angelfire.com)

Bessie Smith was the greatest of the classic Blues singers of the 1920s. Bessie started out as a street musician in Chattanooga. In 1912 she joined a traveling show as a dancer and singer. By the early 1920s she was one of the most popular Blues singers. In 1923 she recorded on Columbia with Clarence Williams. The record sold more than 750,000 copies that year. Throughout the 1920s she recorded with many of the popular Jazz musicians. Bessie Smith was one of the biggest stars of the 1920s. Her life came to an end in a car accident in 1937. She was driving with Richard Morgan in Mississippi when their car rear-ended a truck and rolled over crushing her arms and ribs. She had bled to death by the time she reached the hospital.

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