Women in the 20's
This woman was an African-American writer and Anthropologist
Who is Zora Neale Hurston?
This type of music rose to popularity in the 1920s and brought people together.
What is jazz?
A time when many African Americans relocated North.
What is the Great Migration?
This new invention brought families together and made advertising more common.
What is the radio?
This is the author of popular works such as The Great Gatsby and Tales of the Jazz Age.
Who is F. Scott Fitzgerald?
People flocked to Harlem to hear this woman perform various blues songs.
Who is Bessie Smith?
These people smuggled liquor inside their boots in an attempt to undermine the prohibition on alcohol.
What are bootleggers?
This man used the elements of African design in his murals for public buildings.
What is Aaron Douglas' profession?
This author wrote novels that highlighted the emptiness of middle-class life.
Who is Sinclair Lewis?
This is the year that Amelia Earhart disappeared during a record-breaking flight.
What is 1937?
Yearning for self-expression and freedom, people in the twenties went to this place to escape the prohibition on alcohol.
Where is Chicago, Illinois?
The composer of various popular jazz songs, such as Rhapsody in Blue.
Who is George Gershwin?
These two women produced some of the era's most notable works of fictional literature.
Who are Willa Cather and Edith Wharton?
This man was a key figure in creating new opportunities for African Americans on stage.
Who is Paul Robeson?
The three mentioned influential performers and musicians of the Harlem Renaissance.
Who are the people Paul Robeson, Bessie Smith, and Louis Armstrong and what did they do?
The year that The Man Nobody Knows by Bruce Barton was published.
What is 1925?
The amount of major tennis tournaments that Helen Willis won.
What is 31?
The year Claude McKay's novel Home to Harlem was published.
What novel was published in 1928?
What was Langston Hughes' first published book of poetry?
What is The Weary Blues?