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Clarence Darrow
American lawyer, leading member of the American Civil Liberties Union, and prominent advocate for Georgist economic reform. Defended John Scopes in the great monkey case. -
James Weldon Johnson
American author, educator, lawyer, diplomat, songwriter, and civil rights activist. -
Herbert Hoover
He received eighty-seven honorary degrees; a world record during his lifetime.
Hoover was nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize five times: 1921, 1933, 1941, 1946 and 1964.
During World War I, Hoover was made the Chairman of the Commission for Relief in Belgium, which provided food for over nine-million people who were isolated behind the fighting first line of the military forces.
Herbert Hoover was appointed as Secretary of Commerce by two presidents: Warren Harding and Calvin Coolidge -
Georgia O' Keeffe
Artist during the roaring 20's -
Babe Ruth
American professional baseball player whose career in Major League Baseball spanned 22 seasons, from 1914 through 1935 -
F. Scott Fitzgerald
American novelist and short story writer. Author of the great gatsby. He wrote about life in the 20's. -
George Gershwin
Composer and pianist. Most of his melodies are well known i.e. Rhapsody in blue, and Porgy and Bess -
Al Capone
was an American gangster who attained fame during the Prohibition era as the co-founder and boss of the Chicago Outfit. -
Duke Ellington
Composer and Bandleader of jazz orchestras during the jazz age of the 20's. -
Ernest Hemingway
He was renowned for novels like The Sun Also Rises, A Farewell to Arms, For Whom the Bell Tolls, and The Old Man and the Sea, which won the 1953 Pulitzer. -
Langston Hughes
Well known poet. Some of his works are Mother to Son, Dream Keeper, Misery, and Demand -
Louis Armstrong
jazz trumpeter, singer, and one of the pivotal and most influential figures in jazz music. -
Charles A. Lindbergh
nonstop flight on May 20–21, 1927, made from the Roosevelt Field[N 1] in Garden City on New York's Long Island to Le Bourget Field in Paris, France, a distance of nearly 3,600 statute miles (5,800 km), in the single-seat, single-engine, purpose-built Ryan monoplane Spirit of St. Louis. As a result of this flight, Lindbergh was the first person in history to be in New York one day and Paris the next. The record setting flight took 33 hours and 30 minutes. -
Sacco and Vanzetti
They were convicted of murdering a guard and paymaster during the armed robbery of the Slater and Morill shoe company. The evidence was circumstancial against them. -
Warren G Harding
29th president of U.S. from 1921-1923
Signs Emergency Qouta Act into law
Apart of the Teapot Dome Scandal -
Calvin Coolidge
30th president from 1923-1929
first president to make a public radio address to the American people
Dawes Plan and the Kellogg-Briand Pact
