ROSETTA SCHWARTZ, whose story is told in "CAN WE COME IN AND LAUGH, TOO?" was born November 18, 1909
WHAT WAS IT LIKE IN 1910? Reprinted from http://kclibrary.lonestar.edu/decade10.html
Children were hired to work in factories, mills, and mines for long
hours in unsafe and unhealthy conditions. Though efforts to pass
a federal law proved unsuccessful, by the middle of this decade every
state had passed
a minimum age law. A commission found that up to 20% of
the children living in cities were undernourished, education took
second place to hunger and while children worked, only one-third
enrolled in elementary school and less than 10% graduated from high
school. The status of the
Negro worsened. Skilled negro workers were barred from the AF of L. Women were
also striving for equality.The first suffrage
parade was held in 1910 - the 19th
amendment finally ratified in 1919. ROSETTA MANAGED TO GET A TWO-YEAR HIGH SCHOOL EDUCATION AND SELF- EDUCATED THE REST OF HER LONG LIFE---NEARLY 97 YEARS!
