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Charles A. Lindbergh
He flew the distance of nearly 3,600 statute miles in a single seat Ryan monoplane Spirit of St. Louis. Lindbergh was the 19th person to make a Transatlantic flight of Alcock and Brown from Newfoundland in 1919 . -
Langston Hughes
James Mercer Langston Hughes was an American poet, social activist and columnist from Joplin, Missouri. He was one of the earliest innovators of the then-new literary art form called jazz poetry. Hughes is best known as a leader of the Harlem renaissance in New York City. -
Marcus Garvey
Marcus Garvey from the Nation of lslam to Rastafari movement. Garveyism intended persons of African ancestry in the diaspora to redeem the of Nations of African diaspora in African affairs. -
Frances Willard
Her influence was instrumental in the passage of the Eighteenth and Nineteenth. Amendments to the United States Constitution. -
Tin Pan Alley
The collection of New York City music publishers and songwriters who dominated the popular music of the United States in the late 19th century and early 20th century. -
Social Darwinism
Social Darwinism is a name given to various phenomena emerging in the second half of the 19th century trying to apply biological concepts of natural selection and survival of the fittest in human society. -
Warren G. Harding's "Return to Normalcy"
The way of life before World War 1 was United States presidential candidate Warren G. Harding's campaign promise in the election of 1920. -
Prohibition
The United States was a nationwide constitutional ban on the production and sale of alcoholic beverages that remained in place from 1920 to 1933. -
Jazz music
Genre that originated amongst African Americans in New Orleans, United States, in the late 19th and early 20th centuries has roots in West African cultural and musical expression and African American music traditions including blues and ragtime as well as European military band music. -
1930s
15 million Americans-fully one-quarter of all wage-earning workers-were unemployed. President Herbert Hoover did not do much to alleviate the crisis. -
20th Amendment
20th day of January and the terms of Senators and Representatives at the 3d day of January of the years in which such terms would have ended if this article had not been ratified -
Franklin Roosevelt
He ordered the temporary closure on all banks to halt the run on deposits. He formed a "Brain Trust" of economic advisers who designed the such as the AAA Agricultural Adjustment Administration to support farm prices by reducing agricultural production through subsidies the CCC Civilian Conservation Corps to employ young unmarried men to work refurbishing public lands.