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16 Cards in this Set
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Charles A. Lindbergh |
made the first nonstop solo flight across the Atlantic |
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George Gershwin |
creating a new sound that was identifiably |
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Georgia O'Keeffe |
produced intensely colored canvases that captured the grandeur of New York |
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Sinclair Lewis |
first american to win the nobel prize in literature |
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F. Scott Fitzgerald |
coined the team "Jazz Age" |
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Edna St. Vincent Millay |
wrote peoms celebrating youth and a life of independence and freedom from traditional constriants |
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Ernest Heminway |
best-known expatraite author |
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James Weldon Johnson |
poet, lawyer and NAACP executive secretary |
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Marcus Garvey |
immagrant from jamaica |
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Harlem Renaissance |
literary and artistic movement celebrating african american culture |
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Claude McKay |
novelist poet |
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Langston Hughes |
best-known poet |
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Paul Robeson |
son of a one time slave |
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Louis Armstrong |
in the creole jazz band |
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Edward kennedy |
jazz pianst and composer |
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Bessie Smith |
female blues singer |
