Essay On Sports In The 1920s

Jenna Krpec

Mrs. Parnell

English III AAC

February 8, 2023

FINAL DRAFT

A male athlete was funded more for their participation, they had baseball, which attracted the most spectators in the 1920’s, while a female athlete had no funding towards sports at all The 1920s was one of the biggest upsides of sports and women's rights movements. Women were treated like they were objects that being clean and working at home was more lady-like, “some educators thought that running, jumping, and sweating were not very ladylike” (Sumner). So when women got the chance to play sports, the most uninteresting sports like golf and tennis. For men baseball was “America's pastime”, (Sumner) baseball was so popular that the community decided to improve roads and

Things took a turn for the better for the people of color “The Negro National League was formed in baseball by the charismatic Andrew (Rube) Foster” (ASHE). Where black men and women proved themselves by making history with William Dehart Hubbard winning a gold medal in long jump, United Golfers association enhanced the opportunities for blacks. Along with making history, “ Two of the most famous basketball teams ever formed” New York Renaissance and the Harlem Globetrotters began traveling and making history for the black community and, “ Chicago replaced New York City as the black sports capital of America” (ASHE). Although the black community got the recognition they deserve, white women and women of color are still struggling with their recognition of being just as capable as men are to participate in the sports community. It was not until later that women got the

Little did they know women all around the world formed a women rights movement in the late 1920’s. Women wanted to prove themselves with their protest and riots they started. It was not until the “1960’s and ’70s [women] sought equal rights and opportunities and greater personal freedom for women”, (BRITANNICA). The topic about athletic competition and how men did not find it ladylike was dropped and women were able to compete. Some men were still upset by this idea, but women proved themselves with “Hélène de Pourtalès of Switzerland became the first woman to compete at the Olympic Games and became the first female Olympic champion”, (BRITANNICA). Women have been competing in the olympic games ever since and making