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1922, a young trumpet player who joined Joe Oliver's Jazz band which
Louis Armstrong
a person who smuggled alcohol into america
bootlegger
people who believed that all important knowledge was in the bible and
fundamentalism
composer who mixed traditional elements with american jazz, thus
george gershwin
a set of principles granting greater sexual freedom to men over women
double standard
a saloon where people could get illegal alcohol
speakeasies
A literary and artistic movement celebrating african american Culture
Harlem Renaissance
A famous artist who produced intensely-colored canvases that captured
georgia okeeffe
A jazz pianist and composer, which led to a rocketing career in the
Edward Duke Ellington
A cuban writer who went to europe and wrote about the flaws of
Ernest Hemingway
The son of a one-time slave, became a major dramatic actor. He had a
Paul Robeson
Women who wrote poems that celebrated the life of youth and
edna millay
The most famous lawyer, and defended evolution over fundamentalism,
Clarence Darrow
A female blues singer, was possibly the outstanding vocalist of the
Bessie Smith
A poet, lawyer, and NAACP executive secretary which is an organization
James Weldon Johnson
An immigrant from Jamaica that believed that african americans should
Marcus Garvey
an independent women who wore modern clothes and style, and had a very
flapper
A novelist and poet and jamaican immigrant whose militant verses urged
Claude McKay
An african american women who went to Howard University and worked her
Zora Neale Hurston
A trial of evolution vs fundamentalism
scopes trial
THe movements best-known poet. Wrote many poems about the difficult
Langston Hughes
The First american to win the Nobel Prize in literature
sinclair lewis
The man who made the first non-stop solo flight over the atlantic
Charles A. Lindbergh

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