A | B |
flapper | casual and indepenendent woman |
Gertrude Ederle | first woman to swim across the English Channel |
George Gershwin | this composer wrote original works like Rhapsody in Blue, the first jazz work for symphony |
F. Scott Fitzgerald | in his novel "the Great Gatsby", this novelist protrayed wealthy people leading hopelessly empty lives |
Ernest Hemingway | wounded in WWI, this writer criticized the glorification of war and introduced a style of writing based on "hard little sentences" |
Universal Negro Improvement Association | this black nationalist and artistic movment was founded by Marcus Garvey |
Marcus Garvey | founder of the Universal Negro Improvement Association |
Harlem Renaissance | this was a literary and artistic movment that celebrated African-American culture |
National Association for the Advancement of Colored People | among the founders of this association of African-American and white reformers was W.E.B. Du Bois |
Bessie Smith | singer--the "Empress of Blues" |
Clarence Darrow | lawyer for John T. Scopes |
W.E.B. Du Bois | NAACP leader |
Langston Hughes | writer of working-class African-American lives |
Zora Neale Hurston | writer of life for poor, southern African-Americans |
Charles Lindbergh | first pilot to fly across the Atlantic |
aviator | another word for pilot |
prohibition | social and legal movement of the 1920s that prohibited the sale, manufacture, and transport of alcoholic beverages |
evolution | the Scopes trial was about whether or not this could be taught in the public school system |
Great Migration | term refering to the movement of African Americans from the Southern US to the Northern US |