-European art movements greatly influenced the diverse range of artistic styles, each attempting to express the indivudal, modern experince. Before most music and art came about parents and children/teens would never go against certain morals.

-John Marin: drew on nature as well as the urban dynamics of New York for inspiration...explained that "the whole city is alive; buildings, people, all are alive; and the more they move me the more i feel them to be alive.

-Charles Scheeler: applied the influences of photography and the geometric forms of cubism to urban and rural American Landscapes.

-Edward Hopper: His paintings conveyed a modern sense of disenchantment and isolation.

-Georgia O'keefe: her landscapes and flowers were admired in many musesums throughout her life.

-Willa Cather: is a Public Prize winner who wrote about life on the Great Plains

-Gergrude Stein: An avantgarde poet of the Era, and wasa mentor to many writers.

-Ernest Hemmingway: produced most of his work between the mid 1920s, had heroic qualites. He described the experince of war in such novels as For Whom the Bell Tolls and A Farewell to Arms

-F.Scott Fitzgerald: chased futile dreams in The Great Gatsby a novel critical of modern societys superficiality

-Irving Berlin was one of the famous songwriters of the 1920s.

-He worked in an area of New York City known as Tin Pan Alley where the composers wrote the popular music of the era

-Radio broadcasts such as The Everady Hour offered music to comedy

-Mass Media: radio, movies, newspapers and magazines aimed at a broad audience - did morethan just entertain

-They fostered a sense of shared experince that helped unify the nation and spread new ideas and attitudes

-Jack Dempsey (Boxing) : attempted to win back his title after losing it to Gene Tunney in 1926 (Heavyweight) which Dempsey won in 1919. His fans enthusiasm for the rematch reached such a frenzy that one store sold $90,000 worth of radios

-Red Grange (Football) : one of the most famous players of the 1920s went to the University of Illionis. Was known as the "Galloping Ghost" because of his speed and ability to evade members of opposing teams

-Bobby Jones (Golf) : Best golfer of the decade 1926 became the first golfer to win the U.S open and British open in the same year.

-Langston Hughes: was a prolific, orginial , and versatile writer. He bacame a leading voice of the African American experince in America.

-Zora Neale Hurston: published her first Novels, "Jonah's Gourd Vine" and "Their Eyes were Watching God" in the 1930s. Her personal and spirited portrays of rural African American culture were also the first major stories featuring African American women as Central characters.

-The NAACP also lobied and protested against the horrors of lynching

-The persistent efforts led to the passage of antilynching legislation in the House of Representatives in 1922

-The Senate defeated the bill, but the NAACP continued the fight

-One of the NAACP's greatest political triumphs occured in 1930 with the defeat of Judge John J. Parkers nomination to the U.S. Supreme Court

-Eventually, some began calling for black seperation

Marcus Garvey: captured the imagination of millions of African Americans with his "Negro Nationalism" which glorified the black culture and traditions

-The emerging African American middle class and intellectuals distanced themselves from Garvey and his push for racial seperation

-Despite Garveys failure to keep his movement alive, he instilled millions of African Americans with a sense of pride in their heritage and inspired hope for the future

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