What were peoples reactions when women got their rights in 1920?
I assume you mean when the 19th Amendment passed, giving women voting rights. We got no other rights in 1920. The sites below have some information that you may find helpful, especially the first two. Do check out the argument made at the third site for repeal of the 19th Amendment. When you get to the site on Elizabeth Cady Stanton, read it through; take not of her goals, which far exceeded voting rights, and notice that many of them took decades to even begin to become part of the social fabric and that some are not yet fully woven in. At the ERA site, read the full text (it’s very short) and the arguments for and against it. The information at these sites is pretty general. For more specific info, you may need to log off and go to the periodical archives in a good library or a newspaper morgue (archive). A search of local and major newspaper and magazine articles from the ’20s and ’30s should turn up instances of local scandals and outrage in crime reports, editorials, letters to th
