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| Marcus Garvey | African American who led a movement that advocated a return to Africa |
| Clarence Darrow | Attorney whose questions made William Jennings Bryan look foolish during the Scopes trial |
| Henry Ford | Business leader who used the assembly line method of production for automobiles |
| Sinclair Lewis | First American to win the Nobel Prize for Literature. He wrote about women, race and the powerless of society. |
| Amelia Earhart | First woman to fly across the Atlantic |
| Al Capone | Gangster who consolidated the illegal liquor trade |
| Will Rogers | Known as a "country philosopher". |
| Duke Ellington | One of the greatest jazz composers and performers |
| Warren G. Harding | Republican candidate elected President in 1920. |
| Charles Lindberg | Make first nonstop solo flight across the Atlantic Ocean |
| John T. Scopes | Tennessee teacher tried for teaching evolution. |
| Langston Hughes | Wrote poetry in the 1920's in Harlem. Known for his insights on the life of African Americans in the U.S. from the 1920's-1960's. |
| A. Mitchell Palmer | U.S. Attorney General. |
| Nicola Sacco & Bartolomeo Vanzetti | Men who were arrested in 1920 and charged for robbing a Massachusetts shoe factory and murdering the payroll clerk and guard. |
| Calvin Coolidge | Vice-Presidesnt of Warren G. Harding. Elected on his own right in 1924. |
| Albert Fall | Secretary of Interior took part in the biggest scandal of the Harding administration. |
| Herbert Hoover | Secretary of Commerce who became the 1928 Republican candidate for President. |
| Billy Sunday | Preacher who drew huge crowds to revival meetings in Chicago. |
| Aimee Semple McPherson | Canadian-born preacher who sopoke of the blessings and personal joy faith could bring. |
| Alice Paul | Led the National Woman's Party which called for an end to laws that controlled women's work and pay. They also proposed a new Equal Rights Amendment. |
| Mary Pickford | A favorite movie star |
| Jim Thorpe | Won 2 gold medals at the 1912 Olympics in Sweden. |
| Gertrudes Ederle & Helen Wills | Famous athletes. |
| George "Babe" Ruth | One of baseball's greatest home-run hitters. |
| Langston Hughes | Poet who combined the experiences of African and American cultural roots. |
| Paul Robeson | One of the best-known American actors and singers who attended Columbia University Law School. |
| Ernest Hemingway | Served as an ambulance driver during WW I. |
| Sinclair Lewis | Strong criticized big business and small-town America. |
| F. Scott Fitzgerald | A novelist who wrote about the Jazz Age of the 1920s. |
| Georgia O'Keeffee | An artist known for urbgan scenes and later paintings of the Southwest. |
| Alfred Stieglitz | Founder of modern art photography. |
| Jacob Lawrence | Painter who chronicled the experience of the Great Migration north through art. |
| Bessie Smith | Blues singer |
