The Culture of the Roaring Twenties
Spectator Sports
The Negro League
Babe Ruth
Lou Gehrig
Red Grange
Jack Dempsey
Jesse Owens
Babe Didrikson Zaharias
Jim Thorpe
Motion Pictures
Rudolph Valentino
Clara Bow
Mary Pickford
Douglas Fairbanks
Charlie Chaplin
Al Jolson
The Flapper
Sinclair Lewis
F. Scott Fitzgerald
Ernest Hemingway
William Faulkner
John Steinbeck
Harlem Renaissance
Claude McKay Poet and novelist who wrote about the injustices of black life in America
Zora Neale Hurston Folklore; wrote novels, and short stories celebrating the courage and struggles of African American life in the rural South
Alain Locke Published The New Negro, an anthology of black writing that forced critics to take black literature seriously
Countee Cullen Poet; earned Master’s degree from Harvard; sometimes criticized for being too conventional
Paul Laurence Dunbar Poet, novelist and short stories; was one of the first Black poets to gain national prominence; used African American themes and dialect
Langston Hughes
Bessie Smith
Louis Armstrong
Duke Ellington
Cab Calloway
Mary McLeod Buthune
Marcus Garvey
A. Philip Randolph
Henry Ford and the Model T
Chicago in early 1920s
Charles Lindbergh
Amelia Earhart
Sacco and Vanzetti
Scopes Monkey Trial
Al Capone