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African American poet who described the rich culture of African American life using rhythms influenced by jazz music. He wrote of African American hope and defiance, as well as the culture of Harlem and also had a major impact on the Harlem Renaissance.
Who is Langston Hughes
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The first Director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) of the United States. He founded the present form of the agency, and remained director for 48 years until his death. During his life, Hoover was highly regarded by much of the U.S. public. Hoover's leadership spanned eight presidential administrations, encompassed Prohibition, the Great Depression, World War II, the Korean War, the Cold War, and the Vietnam War. During this time, the United States moved from being a rural nation with strong isolationist tendencies to an urbanized superpower.
Who is J. Edgar Hoover
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First woman to serve in Congress. Suffragist and pacifist, voted against US involvement in WWI and WWII.
Who is Jeanette Rankin
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First designer to make pants for women. popularized boyish style for women. Forefront of France fashion after WWI. Thanks to her, tans suddenly became associated with the leisure activities of the rich and famous such as long cruises, island vacations, and other sunny pursuits.
Who is Coco Chanel
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A novelist and chronicler of the jazz age. his wife, Zelda and he were the "couple" of the decade but hit bottom during the depression. his novel THE GREAT GATSBY is considered a masterpiece about a gangster's pursuit of an unattainable rich girl.
who is F. Scott Fitzgerald
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Writer known for his simplistic stylist with great impact. A wounded WW1 veteran and member of the Lost Generation. Author of The Sun Also Rises and a Farewell to Arms, among others.
Who is Ernst Hemingway
200
A famed criminal defense lawyer for Scopes, who supported evolution. He caused William Jennings Bryan to appear foolish when Darrow questioned Bryan about the Bible.
Who is Clarence Darrow
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American leader of the movement to legalize birth control during the early 1900's. As a nurse in the poor sections of New York City, she had seen the suffering caused by unwanted pregnancy. Founded the first birth control clinic in the U.S. and the American Birth Control League, which later became Planned Parenthood.
Who is Margret Sanger
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Film maker, cartoonist, visionary. He opened small animation studio in 1923 and created a worldwide media empire, brought families and countries together. He developed many famous characters as well as amusement theme parks.
Who is Walt Disney
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First designer to make pants for women. popularized boyish style for women. Forefront of France fashion after WWI. Thanks to her, tans suddenly became associated with the leisure activities of the rich and famous such as long cruises, island vacations, and other sunny pursuits.
who is Coco Chanel
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An important Harlem Renaissance writer whose masterpiece was Their Eyes Were Watching God. Her writing was very regional and closely followed the speech patterns of central Florida., A playwright during the Harlem Renaissance, she wrote "Color Struck".
Who is Zora Neal Hurston
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United States lawyer and politician who advocated free silver and prosecuted John Scopes (1925) for teaching evolution in a Tennessee high school (1860-1925).
Who is William Jennings Bryan
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head of the National Woman's party that campaigned for an equal rights amendment to the Constitution. She opposed legislation protecting women workers because such laws implied women's inferiority. Most condemned her way of thinking.
Who is Alice Paul
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Senator from Ohio chosen by the Republicans to be a candidate after WW1, The teapot dome scandal in which his staff members took bribes in exchange for oil land leases. in the 1920 presidential campaign his slogan was "return to normalcy"
Who is Warren G. Harding
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Labor leader arrested during the Pullman Strike (1894); a convert to socialism, Debs ran for president five times between 1900 and 1920. In 1920, he campaigned from prison where he was being held for opposition to American involvement in World War I.
Who is Eugene V. Debs
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A leader of organized crime in Chicago in the late 1920s, involved in gambling, the illegal sale of alcohol, and prostitution. He was sent to prison in the 1930s for income tax evasion.
Who is Al Capone
400
Used modern methods to get a traditional idea across. Came out of Pentecostal tradition and set up church in L.A. Developed flamboyant style, used radio.
Who is Amy Semple McPherson
400
Chiefly known for paintings in which she synthesized abstraction and representation in paintings of flowers, rocks, shells, animal bones and landscapes. Her paintings present crisply contoured forms that are replete with subtle tonal transitions of varying colors. She often transformed her subject matter into powerful abstract images.
Who is Georgia O'Keefe
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African American farmer and food scientist. His research improved farming in the South by developing new products using peanuts; taught and researched at the Tuskegee Institute
Who is George Washington Carver
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A Jewish Lithuanian Immigrant and Vaudeville Performer: He was the star of the first motion picture with sound, "The Jazz Singer."
Who is Al Jolson
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Born in Chicago middle class. moved to Harlem in 1923 and began playing at the cotton club. Composer, pianist and band leader. Most influential figures in jazz.
Who is Duke Ellington
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American businessman, founder of Ford Motor Company, father of modern assembly lines, and inventor credited with 161 patents.
Who is Henry Ford
500
A twentieth-century American artist and illustrator, known for his warm-hearted paintings of rural and small-town life in the united States. Many of his paintings appeared cover illustrations for the magazine The Saturday Evening Post.
Who is Norman Rockwell
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Russian immigrant and pioneer who developed NBC. Had a vision of a "radio music box" for home use that might also pick up the news. Head of RCA.
Who is David Sarnoff
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The first Director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) of the United States. He founded the present form of the agency, and remained director for 48 years until his death. During his life, Hoover was highly regarded by much of the U.S. public. Hoover's leadership spanned eight presidential administrations, encompassed Prohibition, the Great Depression, World War II, the Korean War, the Cold War, and the Vietnam War. During this time, the United States moved from being a rural nation with strong isolationist tendencies to an urbanized superpower.
Who is J. Edgar Hoover