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Roaring
Twenties
The Culture
USII.5c
Review
USII.5a:
Technology
USII.5b:
Society
What:
 Renaissance:
A rebirth or rise in creativity in art,
music, literature & science
Where:

Harlem
 A neighborhood in
NY City where many
African Americans
settled down
Artists
Jacob
Lawrence
 Painted the
Great
Migration

Artists
 Georgia
O’Keefe
 Painted
urban and
southwest
scenes
Writers
Langston Hughes
 Harlem Renaissance
 Poet who combined the experiences of
African and American cultural roots

Writers
F. Scott Fitzgerald
 Novelist who wrote
about the Jazz Age of
the 1920s

Writers
John Steinbeck
 Novelist who portrayed the strength of
poor migrant workers during the 1930s.


The Grapes of Wrath
Musicians
Louis Armstrong
 Harlem Renaissance
 Jazz composer

Musicians
Duke Ellington
 Harlem Renaissance
 Jazz composer

Musicians
Bessie Smith
 Harlem Renaissance
 Blues singer

Musicians
George Gershwin
 Composer who wrote uniquely American
music

Musicians
Aaron Copland
 Composer who wrote uniquely American
music
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