This thesis is a discussion of how Black women in the city of Atlanta lived their lives from day to day in the 1920s and 1930s through the lens of respectability politics. How they migrated through being not only women, but Black women, in the Jim Crow South and still became leaders within their communities, organizations, and religious groups. This historiographical study will view how respectability politics was in many cases made a positive impact on the lives of Black women, but in some cases was a tool of their own oppression.