1920s
1920
19th Amendment - USA Women's Suffrage
famous 1920's jazz musicians
Duke Ellington, Bessie Smith, Louis Armstrong
Harlem Renaissance (1920s)
Group of African American artists, intellectuals, and social leaders who lived in Harlem in the 1920s. They were termed the New Negroes by black professor Alain Locke because they had risen from the ashes of slavery to proclaim African American creative genius and work toward defeating racial prejudice.
Flappers
Young women of the 1920s that behaved and dressed in a radical fashion
The jazz age
term used to describe the 1920s; reflected the influence of popular music of the time