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20s People
Famous Artists, Writers, and Musicians from the 1920s
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History
7th Grade
01/14/2016

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Bessie Smith
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Successful career as a blues singer

Known as Queen of Blues
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Duke Ellington
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Jazz piano player

Helped transform jazz into a national phenomenon
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Louis Armstrong
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jazz trumpet player

Helped popularize jazz across the country
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George Gershwin
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Wrote Broadway-style musicals

Wrote Rhapsody in Blue
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Aaron Copland
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First great American composer of classical music
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Jacob Lawrence
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Painted the struggles of African American during the Great Migration
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Georgia O'Keeffe
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painted flowers, city skylines
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Langston Hughes
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Pioneer of jazz poetry

Leader of Harlem Renaissance
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John Steinbeck
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Wrote about Americans in the west during Great Depression
Wrote Grapes of Wrath
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F. Scott Fitzgerald
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Wrote The Great Gatsby

Wrote about lifestyle in Jazz Age
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