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| Ku Klux Klan | Secret society created by white southerners in 1866 that used terror and violence to keep African Americans from obtaining their civil rights |
| Flappers | Young women in the 1920s who challenged social traditions with their dress and behavior |
| Jazz Age | A term for the 1920s; so called because of jazz music’s popularity during the decade |
| Prohibition | The banning of the manufacture, sale, and transportation of alcohol |
| Harlem Renaissance | Period of great African American artistic achievement in the 1920s; named for the Harlem neighborhood of New York City |
| Speakeasy | Secret, illegal clubs that served alcohol during Prohibition |
| Great Migration | Mass migration of about 500,000 African Americans to midwestern and northern US cities during and after W.W.I |
| Bootlegger | People who smuggled liquor into the United States during Prohibition from canada and Mexico |
| Jacob Lawrence | African American painter who chronicled the Great Migration north through art |
| Georgia O'Keeffe | An artist known for urban scenes and, later, paintings of the Southwest |
| F. Scott Fitzgerald | Author who wrote about the Jazz Age of the 1920s and his book The Great Gatsby told the story of the Roaring 20s |
| Langston Hughes | The most well known African American poet who combined the experiences of African and American cultural roots |
| George Gershwin | A composer who wrote uniquely American music including “Rhapsody in Blue” and “Someone to Watch Over Me” |
| Duke Ellington | African American jazz composer who was also a famous jazz band leader |
| Louis Armstrong | a jazz composer who also specialized in playing the trumpet and was very popular in society |
| Bessie Smith | African American blues singer of the 1920s whose popularity spread through all of society |
| Talkies | Movies with sound or dialogue |
