What were some of the impacts that the New Era of 1920s had on women and minorities?

We should also include the idea that America had many
different ethnic minorities at this time, due to the large immigrant population.  Poles,
Italians, Russians, Jews all came here in large numbers, and each faced discrimination
in the 1920s.  As the Ku Klux Klan exploded to nearly 5 million members, new laws
restricting immigration were passed, such as the Emergency Quota Act and the National
Origins Act.  Women among these minority populations faced dual discrimination, even
during a time that many see as more liberating for
women.

While there were a few million women who might be
called flappers at the time, most women were conservative in values and religion, and
frowned on women becoming more politically active, or leaving the home for the
workplace.  The women who did enter the work force mainly did so in professions like
teaching, nursing or clerical jobs.

African-Americans did
not share in the nation's prosperity in the 1920s, nor did Native Americans, and faced
as much discrimination and segregation as ever.