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18 Cards in this Set
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Langston Hughes
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Poet; wrote about working class; wrote "A Dream Deferred"
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Gertrude Ederle
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Swam across the Channel
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Paul Robeson
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Singer/Actor
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Charles Lindbergh
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Famous pilot; flew across the Atlantic
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Duke Ellington
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Famous Pianist
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Edina St. Vincent Millay
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Poet; wrote about youth, independence, and freedom
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Babe Ruth
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Baseball guy for the Yankees |
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Zora Hurston
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African-American writer |
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Sinclair Lewis
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First African-American to get a nobel prize
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Claude McKay
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Jamaican writer
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F. Scott Fitzgerald
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Wrote "The Great Gatsby"
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George Gershwin
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Combined American Jazz and Concert Music for a distinctly American sounding music.
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James Johnson |
An author, a teacher, and a diplomat
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Ernest Hemingway
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Author
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Louis Armstrong |
Famous trumpet player |
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Marcus Garvey
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Founded the UNIA; Jamaican
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Georgia O'Keeffe
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Profound painter |
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Bessie Smith
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A blues singer |
