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PeopleMr. Johnson

U.S. History

Founder of the NAACP and editor of its newsletter, The Crisis

Sports superstar of the 1920s, hit 60 homeruns in a 154 game season, larger-

than-life personality

“Lucky Lindy,” the first person to make a solo flight across the Atlantic Ocean, his family later entered the spotlight when

his infant son was kidnapped and murdered

Former baseball player and fundamentalist preacher who spoke in favor of Prohibition and built wooden

tabernacles

Tennessee teacher put on trial for teaching evolution in the classroom

Author of The Origin of Species & The Descent of Man, proponent of the

theories of evolution & survival of the fittest

The two stars of the Scopes “Monkey” Trial who faced off in a 10-day courtroom

duel of cultures

Evangelist & faith healer who built a huge temple complete with two radio towers in

Los Angeles

Chicago bootlegger & gangster sent to prison for tax evasion

Chicago “Untouchables” leader who brought Al Capone to justice

President elected in 1920 who promised a post-war “return to normalcy”

Vice president who became president upon the death of Warren G. Harding;

“laissez faire” president

President elected in 1928; promoted “voluntary action” and “rugged

individualism in first years of the Great Depression

“The Little Tramp,” silent film star

Black singer & model who became a popular entertainer in Paris

Advocate of women’s rights & birth control; founder of Planned Parenthood

Grant Wood’s portrait of Iowa farmers, usually interpreted as critical of “Bible-

thumping” rural America

African American novelist & folklorist, author of Their Eyes Were Watching God

The most celebrated poet of the Harlem Renaissance

Only president elected to office four times; issues during presidency: Great Depression & New Deal, World War II,

development of the atomic bomb

Nickname given to Oklahoma migrants who moved to California seeking work; famously captured in photograph by

Dorothea Lange

Most popular trumpet player of the 1920s and 1930s, nicknamed “Satchmo”

Author of Babbit, which criticized the narrow-minded values of middle class

America

“Lost Generation” author of The Sun Also Rises & A Farewell to Arms

Author of The Great Gatsby

The original “it girl,” flapper & sex symbol of the 1920s

Black nationalist & founder of the “Back to Africa” movement and the Universal

Negro Improvement Association

“Shoeless” star of the Chicago White Sox who was banned from Major League

Baseball under suspicion he had taken money to “throw” the 1919 World Series

Al Capone

Eliot Ness

Warren G. Harding

Calvin Coolidge

Herbert Hoover

Franklin D. Roosevelt

“Okies” Sinclair Lewis

Louis Armstrong

Ernest Hemingway

Charlie Chaplin F. Scott Fitzgerald

Josephine Baker

Margaret Sanger

American Gothic

Zora Neale Hurston

Langston Hughes

Clara Bow

Marcus Garvey

Joe Jackson

W.E.B. DuBois

Billy Sunday John Scopes

Charles Lindbergh

Clarence Darrow & William Jennings Bryan

Babe Ruth Aimee Semple McPherson

Charles Darwin