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People who Influenced Culture in the 1920s March 2, 2015 Phonograph • Listen to music whenever want Sports • Babe Ruth (1895 – 1948) • Nickname: “Bambino” • Boston Red Sox – Sold to NY Yankees Aviation • Plays small part in WWI • Used for mail • Charles Lindbergh • 1927: Flies from Long Island, NY to Paris, France – Plane “Spirit of St Louis” • 1st solo, non-stop flight across Atlantic – Took 33 hours • Lindbergh declared a hero • Sigmund Freud (1856 – 1939) – Father of psychology • Credited with creating psychoanalysis – Psychologist/ Patient • F Scott Fitzgerald – Novelist • The Great Gatsby (1925) – American dream end in nightmare • Destroyed by the things he wanted – “Portrait of the so-called American dream” • Ernest Hemingway – Novelist • Won nobel prize in Literature • For Whom the Bell Tolls/ Old Man & the Sea Harlem Renaissance March 6, 2015 Harlem Renaissance • Mass migration brings millions of African Americans to cities in North Chances in North • (1) Higher paying jobs; (2) More jobs; (3) More education Challenges in North • (1) Racism; (2) Wage discrimination; (3) Violence • 1919: young African American boy drowned in Lake Michigan after rocks thrown in “White Section” Marcus Garvey • Born in Jamaica (moves to Harlem) • Starts “Back to Africa” movement – African Americans NOT treated right in U.S./ Leave U.S. • Advocate for separation of the races – Unsuccessful • Arrested for mail fraud and deported back to Jamaica