https://padlet.com/5506861/nj89lei50hh67y29 en-us 2022-02-09 21:01:21 UTC 2022-02-09 22:22:42 UTC hello@padlet.com https://padlet.net/icons/png/1f387.png 5506861 https://padlet.com/5506861/nj89lei50hh67y29/wish/2038908738 He was a poet, novelist, activist, and playwright, and the inventor of jazz poetry.]]> 2022-02-09 21:10:18 UTC https://padlet.com/5506861/nj89lei50hh67y29/wish/2038908738 5506861 https://padlet.com/5506861/nj89lei50hh67y29/wish/2038916345 She was born in America, but she primarily worked in Europe as an entertainer, French Resistance Agent, and civil rights activist.]]> 2022-02-09 21:15:43 UTC https://padlet.com/5506861/nj89lei50hh67y29/wish/2038916345 5506861 https://padlet.com/5506861/nj89lei50hh67y29/wish/2038920079 He worked as a trumpeter and vocalist. He spanned five decades and several eras of jazz music and shifted the focus of the genre.]]> 2022-02-09 21:18:25 UTC https://padlet.com/5506861/nj89lei50hh67y29/wish/2038920079 5506861 https://padlet.com/5506861/nj89lei50hh67y29/wish/2038925520 This famous New York Theater was an important venue for African American performers, and hosted its own television show from 1987 to 2008 showcasing all kinds of talent.]]> 2022-02-09 21:22:25 UTC https://padlet.com/5506861/nj89lei50hh67y29/wish/2038925520 5506861 https://padlet.com/5506861/nj89lei50hh67y29/wish/2038930165 Flappers were a subculture of younger western women who wore short skits, bobbed hair, and acted in a way to show disdain for behaviors considered acceptable for women. They acted free and liberated as a way of displaying empowerment.]]> 2022-02-09 21:25:42 UTC https://padlet.com/5506861/nj89lei50hh67y29/wish/2038930165 5506861 https://padlet.com/5506861/nj89lei50hh67y29/wish/2038934026 A silent comedy film about "The Tramp" raising a poor orphan boy he found abandoned by his parents.]]> 2022-02-09 21:28:34 UTC https://padlet.com/5506861/nj89lei50hh67y29/wish/2038934026 5506861 https://padlet.com/5506861/nj89lei50hh67y29/wish/2038938190 A movie about two farmhands fighting for the affection of a girl who has no interest in either one.]]> 2022-02-09 21:31:52 UTC https://padlet.com/5506861/nj89lei50hh67y29/wish/2038938190 5506861 https://padlet.com/5506861/nj89lei50hh67y29/wish/2038943831 The scopes trial was a legal case against teacher John T. Scopes, who was accused of violating the Butler Act of Tennessee by Teaching Evolution to his students. The trial was, however, deliberately staged to attract attention to the town.]]> 2022-02-09 21:36:28 UTC https://padlet.com/5506861/nj89lei50hh67y29/wish/2038943831 5506861 https://padlet.com/5506861/nj89lei50hh67y29/wish/2038948590 This scandal involved Secretary of the Interior Albert Bacon Fall accepting bribes from oil companies in in exchange for leasing petroleum reserves for low rates without competitive biding. He was convicted and sent to prison.]]> 2022-02-09 21:40:17 UTC https://padlet.com/5506861/nj89lei50hh67y29/wish/2038948590 5506861 https://padlet.com/5506861/nj89lei50hh67y29/wish/2038952066 Babe Ruth was a major league baseball player with a career that spanned twenty two seasons. He became famous as a slugging outfielder for The New York Yankees.]]> 2022-02-09 21:43:06 UTC https://padlet.com/5506861/nj89lei50hh67y29/wish/2038952066 5506861 https://padlet.com/5506861/nj89lei50hh67y29/wish/2038959451 Most commonly called Betty, she was a 100 meter racer who was the first female track and field athlete in The Olympics. She won the 1928 100 meter race in the Amsterdam Olympics.]]> 2022-02-09 21:49:17 UTC https://padlet.com/5506861/nj89lei50hh67y29/wish/2038959451 5506861 https://padlet.com/5506861/nj89lei50hh67y29/wish/2038964193 This car from 1925 uses a replacement for the original "Sliver Ghost" and featured a larger engine and overhead valves.]]> 2022-02-09 21:53:08 UTC https://padlet.com/5506861/nj89lei50hh67y29/wish/2038964193 5506861 https://padlet.com/5506861/nj89lei50hh67y29/wish/2038966978 This was a movement of six million African American people out of southern rural states to burgeoning urban Northeast and Western cities.]]> 2022-02-09 21:55:30 UTC https://padlet.com/5506861/nj89lei50hh67y29/wish/2038966978 5506861 https://padlet.com/5506861/nj89lei50hh67y29/wish/2038973106 She was an American writer, play write and art collector of cubist and other experimental paintings raised in Oakland California.  Some of her major major writings include  The Autobiography of Alice B. Toklas and Q.E.D, a sapphic love affair story about several of her friends.]]> 2022-02-09 22:00:44 UTC https://padlet.com/5506861/nj89lei50hh67y29/wish/2038973106 5506861 https://padlet.com/5506861/nj89lei50hh67y29/wish/2038976461 Speakeasys were illegal establishments used in the 1920's for customers to buy and drink alcohol at a time when it was prohibited in The United States.]]> 2022-02-09 22:03:18 UTC https://padlet.com/5506861/nj89lei50hh67y29/wish/2038976461 5506861 https://padlet.com/5506861/nj89lei50hh67y29/wish/2038979477 An advertisement for 1920's Orange Crush soda, a brand we still know today.]]> 2022-02-09 22:05:17 UTC https://padlet.com/5506861/nj89lei50hh67y29/wish/2038979477 5506861 https://padlet.com/5506861/nj89lei50hh67y29/wish/2038980895 This advertisement for cola soda features spots star Babe Ruth, an early form of celebrity endorsements.]]> 2022-02-09 22:06:42 UTC https://padlet.com/5506861/nj89lei50hh67y29/wish/2038980895 5506861 https://padlet.com/5506861/nj89lei50hh67y29/wish/2038987800 A. Philip Randolph was an American Labor Unionist and Civil Rights Activist.  He created the first successful African American led labor union, Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters, and successfully, "pressured President Harry S. Truman to issue Executive Orders 9980 and 9981 in 1948, promoting fair employment, anti-discrimination policies in federal government hiring, and ending racial segregation in the armed services" (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A._Philip_Randolph).]]> 2022-02-09 22:13:11 UTC https://padlet.com/5506861/nj89lei50hh67y29/wish/2038987800 5506861 https://padlet.com/5506861/nj89lei50hh67y29/wish/2038994115 Richard Bruce Nugent was a writer and painter who wrote many short stories and poems such as"Shadow" and "Shadji". One of the few publicly out members of his group of gay Harlem artists, "Nugent had a long productive career bringing to light the creative process of gay and black culture" (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_Bruce_Nugent).]]> 2022-02-09 22:18:46 UTC https://padlet.com/5506861/nj89lei50hh67y29/wish/2038994115 5506861 https://padlet.com/5506861/nj89lei50hh67y29/wish/2038998261 Considered one of the greatest screenwriters of the 20th century, she wrote over 325 scripts over her life, including both silent and sound films. She was the first writer to ever win two academy awards, one for "The Big House", and one for "The Champ".]]> 2022-02-09 22:22:42 UTC https://padlet.com/5506861/nj89lei50hh67y29/wish/2038998261