Charles A. Lindbergh
Americas most beloved hero, who was a small town pilot. Made the first non–stop solo flight across the Atlantic – 33 hours and 29 minutes.
George Gershwin
merged popular concert music with American jazz
Georgia O’ Keefe
Produced intensely colored canvases that would capture the grandeur of New York
Sinclair Lewis
the first American to receive a Nobel Prize in literature
F. Scott Fitzgerald
Created the term “Jazz age” to describe the 1920’s
Edna St. Vincent
wrote poems celebrating youth and a life of independence and freedom from traditional constraints
Ernest Hemingway
wounded in WW1 and became the best–known expatriate author
Zora Neale Hurston
A girl in Eatonville Florida who worked to the top of the African–American literary society
James Weldon Johnson
A poet, lawyer and NAACP executive secretary
Marcus Garvey
an immigrant from Jamaica and believed African–Americans should build a separate society.
Harlem Renaissance
a flowering of African–American artistic creativity during the 1920s, centered in the Harlem community of New York City.
Claude McKay
Urged African Americans to resist prejudice. and discrimination
Langston Hughes
best–known poet and his poems describe the difficult lives for working–class African Americans
Paul Robeson
the son of a one time slave and became a major dramatic actor
Louis Armstrong
a young trumpet player who joined Oliver’s group (Creole Jazz Band).
Duke Ellington
a jazz pianist and composer
Bessie Smith
a female blues singer
