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14 Cards in this Set
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al jolson
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white performer; used blackface in talkies like THE JAZZ SINGER
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paul robeson
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black bass signer; 1924 starred in play by eugene o'neil ALL GODS CHILLIN GOT WINGS; 1976 political activist
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theodore dreiser
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AN AMERICAN TRAGEDY-novel; murder of a pregnant working girl by her socially ambitious lover; showed achievement-based society
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willa cather
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VA novelist wrote movingly of pioneering on the prairies
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frank lloyd wright
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developed the theory that buildings should grow naturally from their sites
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edith wharton
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wealthy cosmopolitan NYer; popular novelist since 1900
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ernest hemingway
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THE SUN ALSO RISES and A FAREWELL TO ARMS showed postwar disillusionment
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gertrude stein
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wrote THREE LIVES-3 working women, 1909; called young am. after WWI "the lost generation"; THE MAKING OF AMERICANS: "a rose is a rose is a rose"
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marcus garvey
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early 20s black activist for african nationalism; jamaican; 1923 convicted of mail fraud and disorganized his movement
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clark gable
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actor in GONE WITH THE WIND 1939
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charlie chaplin
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gifted character actor in modern times rebelled against the intolerable discipline of the assembly line, a symbol of threat against the individual
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carl sandburg
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midwest poet who sometimes took folk myths as themes; free verse poet of the industrial city (ie CHICAGO)
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jim thorpe
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am indian who won both decathlon and pentathlon at Sweden olympic; later medals and honors taken away when discovered he played semipro baseball as a summer job in college
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mary pickford
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movie star; AMERICA'S SWEETHEART; the sunny side of life
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