Roaring 20's People
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- Amelia Earhart
- first woman aviator to fly solo nonstop across the Atlantic (1928)
- Al Capone
- United States gangster who terrorized Chicago during Prohibition until arrested for tax evasion (1899-1947)
- Charles Lindbergh
- United States aviator who in 1927 made the first solo nonstop flight across the Atlantic Ocean (1902-1974)
- Walt Disney
- United States film maker who pioneered animated cartoons and created such characters as Mickey Mouse and Donald Duck
- Richard E. Byrd
- pioneering American polar explorer, famous aviator and a recipient of the Medal of Honor.
- WEB Dubois
- 1st black to earn Ph.D. from Harvard, encouraged blacks to resist systems of segregation and discrimination, helped create NAACP in 1910
- Al Jolson
- United States singer (born in Russia) who appeared in the first full-length talking film (1886-1950)
- Clarence Darrow
- United States lawyer famous for his defense of lost causes (1857-1938)
- Herbert Hoover
- 31st President of the United States
- William Jennings Bryan
- United States lawyer and politician who advocated free silver and prosecuted John Scopes (1925) for teaching evolution in a Tennessee high school (1860-1925)
- J. Edgar Hoover
- Founder of FBI
- Georia O'Keefe
- Painter, Southwest
- Duke Ellington
- United States jazz composer and piano player and bandleader (1899-1974)
- Jack Dempsey
- United States prizefighter who was world heavyweight champion (1895-1983)
- Louis Armstrong
- United States jazz trumpeter and bandleader (1900-1971)
- Marconi
- Short - wave radio
- Babe Ruth
- United States professional baseball player famous for hitting home runs (1895-1948)
- Warren Harding
- 29th President of the United States
- Langston Hughes
- United States writer (1902-1967)
- F. Scott Fitzgerald
- Modernism--The Great Gatsby; Winter Dreams