1920s Flashcards
The movement of some six million African Americans from rural areas of the South to urban areas in the North between 1916 and 1970.
Great Migration
First film-maker to dare to expose, through satire and ridicule, the paranoia and political intolerance which overtook the United States in the Cold War years of the 1940s and 50s.
Charlie Chaplin
First person to fly solo and nonstop across the Atlantic Ocean in his plane, the Spirit of St. Louis.
Charles Lindbergh
Professional Baseball player who became the first American star athlete.
Babe Ruth
Weekly American country music stage concert that is the longest-running radio broadcast in US history.
Grand Ole Opry
Known as the Father of the Blues, was the first person to notate and publish Blues songs.
W.C. Handy
“Empress of the Blues”, she was the most popular female Blues singer of the 1920s and 1930s.
Bessie Smith
created the Model T and mass production process that influenced the “machine age” and allowed for cars to be affordable to everyone.
Henry T. Ford & Impact
An African American intellectual and cultural movement, centered around Harlem, that drew great minds and artists from around the world to create a Black cultural mecca.
Harlem Renaissance & Impact
Famous trumpeter of the Harlem Renaissance
Louis Armstrong
Famous Jazz musician of the Harlem Renaissance.
Duke Ellington
Prolific writer and poet of the Harlem Renaissance
Langston Hughes
Author and writer best know for her moving novel, Their Eyes were Watching God
Zora Neale Hurston
Significant changes for women that took place in politics, the home, the workplace, and in education. Some were the results of laws passed, many resulted from newly developed technologies, and all had to do with changing attitudes toward the place of women in society.
Social & Economic Status of Women in 1920s
The rounding up and deportation of several hundred immigrants of radical political views by the federal government in 1919 and 1920 because of fears of communism spreading to the US.
Red Scare
