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John Scopes |
was a teacher in Dayton, Tennessee, who was charged on May 5, 1925, with violating Tennessee's Butler Act, which prohibited the teaching of evolution in Tennessee schools. |
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Marcus Garvey |
was a Jamaican political leader, publisher, journalist, entrepreneur, and orator who was a proponent of the Pan-Africanism movement |
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Charles Lindbergh |
was an American aviator, military officer, author, inventor, explorer, and environmental activist. |
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Babe Ruth |
was an American professional baseball player whose career in Major League Baseball spanned 22 seasons, from 1914 through 1935. |
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Langston Hughes |
was an American poet, social activist, novelist, playwright, and columnist from Joplin, Missouri. He was one of the earliest innovators of the then-new literary art form called jazz poetry. |
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Hollywood |
Hollywood is an ethnically diverse, densely populated neighborhood in the central region of Los Angeles, California. |
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Bootleggers |
the illegal business of transporting ) alcoholic beverages where such transportation is forbidden by law. |
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Speakeasies |
is an illicit establishment that sells alcoholic beverages. |
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The Great Migration |
was the movement of 6 million African-Americans out of the rural Southern United States to the urban Northeast, Midwest, and West that occurred between 1916 and 1970. |
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Fads of the 1920's |
1.pole sitting 2.dance marathon 3.mahjongg |
