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Lost Generation
label given to modernist writers and authors, such as F. Scott Fitzgerland and Ernest Hemingway, who had lost faith in the values and institutions of Western civiizations in the aftermath of the Great War -
NAACP
National Association for the Advancement of Colored People was an organization founded in 1910 by black activists and white progressive that promoted education as a means of combating social problems and focused on legal action to secure the civil rights supposedly guaranteed by the 14th and 15th Amendments -
Armory show
a divisive and sensational art exhibition in 1913 which introduced european-inspired modernism to american audiences -
Great Migration
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 -
"Jazz Age"
Term coined by writer F. Scott Fitzgerald to characterize the spirit of rebellion and spontaneity among young Americans in the 1920's, a spirit epitomized by the hugely popular jazz music of the era -
consumer culture
A society in which mass production and consumption of nationally advertised products comes to dictate much of social life and status -
Flappers
young women of the 1920s whose rebellion against prewar standards of femininity included wearing shorter dresses, bobbing their hair, dancing to jazz music, driving cars, smoking cigarettes, and indulging in illegal drinking and gambling -
Negro nationalism
a cultural and political movement in the 1920s spearheaded by Marcus Garvey which exalted blackness, black cultural expression, and black excluiveness -
Modernism
an early-20th century intellectual and artistic movement that rejected traditional notions of reality and adopted radical new forms of artistic expression -
Harlem Renaissance
The nation's first self-conscious black literary and artistic movement; it was centered in New York City's Harlem District, which had a largely black population in the wake of the Great Migration from the South
