Culture Of The 1920's By Marvin Gonzalez by Marvin Gonzalez

Micheal Jordan

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is a former American basketball player who led the Bulls to six national championships and earned the NBA Most Valuable Player Award five times.

Jackie Robinson

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In 1947, Jackie Robinson engineered the integration of professional sports in America by breaking the color barrier in baseball. He overcame numerous obstacles in his 10 year career to become one of baseball's most exciting and dazzling players. His enormous talent helped lead the Brooklyn Dodgers to six pennants and one World Series Championship. The ultimate honor was bestowed when Jackie was inducted into the National Baseball Hall of Fame in 1962, his first year of eligibility.

Louis Armstrong

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Louis Armstrong

Armstrong was a foundational influence in jazz.He was an American jazz trumpeter, singer, and an influential figure in jazz music.Armstrong was one of the first truly popular African-American entertainers to "cross over", whose skin color was secondary to his music in an America that was severely racially divided.

Langston Hughes

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was an American poet, social activist, novelist, playwright, and columnist.He famously wrote about the period that "the negro was in vogue", which was later paraphrased as "when Harlem was in vogue".

Duke Ellington

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was an American composer, pianist and bandleader of jazz orchestras.He led his orchestra from 1923 until his death, his career spanning over 50 years

Billie Holiday

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was an American jazz singer, songwriter, and actress. Her vocal style, strongly inspired by jazz instrumentalists, pioneered a new way of manipulating phrasing and tempo.

Alain LeRoy Locke

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was an American writer, philosopher, educator, and patron of the arts. Distinguished as the first African American Rhodes Scholar in 1907, Locke was the philosophical architect —the acknowledged "Dean"— of the Harlem Renaissance Distinguished as the first African American was an American writer, philosopher, educator, and patron of the arts. Distinguished as the first African American Rhodes Scholar in 1907, Locke was the philosophical architect —the acknowledged "Dean"— of the Harlem Renaissance