orming clubs and societies, trying to learn how to control their daughters. The Young Women's Christian Association provided activities and courses for women in homemaking, gymnastics, religion, to help women resist the temptation of the new city life. These women were faced with opposition at every corner, but still they thrived and insisted on changing the societal roles of women.
             Louise Brooks was a silent film star who helped define the image of the flapper. She wore her hair in a short Dutch Bob, the style of the flapper in the 20s. She was once a Ziegfeld Follies girl, and a dancer, but grew up to star in over twenty-seven silent films. She inspired the popular John H. Striebel comic strip, "Dixie Dugan," and she was one of the most talked about female actresses, preceded only by the famous Colleen Moore, Joan Crawford, and Clara Bow. Women were being photographed, seen, and talked about more than ever before in America. During the 1920s, the roles of women in society changed drastically.
             Between 1920 and 1930 a burst in artistic cultural life occurred within the African-American community. The area of upper Manhattan, known as Harlem, was where much of the artistic development was taking place, hence, the Harlem Renaissance. This unprecedented outburst in creativity took place in all areas of art: literature, painting, music, style. There were many leaders in this African-American movement, among them, W.E.B. Dubois. A black philosopher, scholar, and orator Dubois set into motion many changes in the way African-Americans viewed them selves in the American Society. In the early 1900s he began voicing philosophies and ideas about Afr
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