Attorney General in the Red Scare - the "Fighting Quaker" | ||
two workers convicted of murdering a Massachusetts paymaster and his guard | ||
philospher on immigration - pluralism | ||
critic on immigration - cosmopolitanism - cross fertilization of immigrants | ||
professor at Columbia University, formed the foundation of so-called progressive education | ||
notorious booze distributing gangster | ||
advertised products in relation with religion | ||
"Father of Scientific Management," an inventor, the stopwatch efficiency engineer | ||
aviator who traveled from New York to Paris | ||
feminist leader of the birth-control movement, championed the use of contraceptives | ||
leader of the National Woman's party, campaigned for an Equal Rights Amendment to the Constitution | ||
African-American poet of Harlem, wrote The Weary Blues (1926) | ||
Harlem political leader, founder of the United Negro Improvement Association (UNIA) | ||
the "Bad Boy of Baltimore," wrote the American Mercury, writer who assailed marriage, patriotism, democracy, prohibition, Puritanism | ||
wrote This Side of Paradise (1920) and The Great Gatsby (1925), | ||
war veteran and writer of The Sun Also Rises (1926) and A Farewell to Arms (1929) | ||
wrote "Main Street" (1920) and "Babbitt" (1922) | ||
wrote "The Sound and the Fury" (1929), "As I Lay Dying" (1930), and "Absalom, Absalom!" (1936) | ||
architect who advanced the theory that buildings should grow from their sites and not slavishly imitate Greek and Roman importations | ||
Secretary of Treasury who reduced taxes | ||
Tennessee biology teacher, indicted for teaching evolution - "Monkey Trial" case | ||
made "Birth of A Nation" (1915) - a film that glorified the Ku Klux Klan |
Chapter 31: American Life in the "Roaring Twenties" 1919-1929 - People
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