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Georgia O’Keeffe | an artist known for urban scenes and, |
F. Scott Fitzgerald | a novelist who wrote about the |
Warren G. Harding | President during the first part of the 1920's who was weak and let corruption take seat in the federal government |
Calvin Coolidge | President of the 1920's who undid several progressive accomplishments in order to help big business. |
Louis Armstrong | Jazz trumpet player of the Harlem Renaissance |
Bessie Smith | Empress of the Blues, jazz singer of the Harlem Reniassance |
John Steinbeck | a novelist who portrayed the |
Langston Hughes | Arguably the best known poet of the Harlem Renaissance |
Babe Ruth | Professional Baseball player who saved the professional game with his amazing feats on the field |
Aaron Copland and George Gershwin | composers who wrote uniquely American music |
Bill "Bojangles" Robinson | Tap dancer of the Harlem Renaissance |
Duke Ellington | Piano player and band leader of the Harlem Renaissance |
Marcus Garvey | African-American leader who led the Back-to-Africa Movement and the UNIA |
WEB DuBois | Africn-American leader who helped form the NAACP |
Jacob Lawrence | painter who chronicled the |
Charles Lindbergh | Pilot who was the first to fly non-stop across the Atlantic from New York to Paris. He became an American Icon. |
Herbert Hoover | President of the United States when the Great Depression hit. He would receive the blame for the Depression. |
Flappers | Young, cool, rebellious women of the 1920's |
Henry Ford | Automobile maker who helped revolutionize American industry by pioneering the use of the moving assembly line. |