chapter 15 vocab Flashcards
wrote The Great Gatsby
F. Scott Fitzgerald
important playwright
Eugene O’Neill
dominated women’s tennis
Helen Wills
first woman to swim the English Channel
Gertrude Ederle
The Sun Also Rises and Farewell to Arms criticize war
Ernest Hemingway
first weekly radio program
Amos n Andy
wrote poems celebrating youth
Edna St. Vincent Millay
Disney animated classic (first with sound)
Steamboat Willie
first “talkie” in motion pictures
The Jazz Singer
famous home run slugger
Babe Ruth
founded Negro baseball leagues
Rube Foster
wrote “Babbit’ to challenge conformity
Sinclair Lewis
painted scenes of NYC, southwest art
Georgia O’Keefee
pioneer female aviator
Amelia Earhard
made first solo flight across the Atlantic
Charles A. Lindbergh
sophisticated jazz artist
George Gershwin
most famous golfer of his time
Bobby Jones
painted industrial, urban, solitary sights
Edward Hopper
black nationalist association founded by Marcus Garvey
UNIA
this was a literary and artistic movement that celebrated African American culture
Harlem Renaissance
among the founders of this association was WEB Dubois
NAACP
in 1927, this singer became the highest paid black artist in the world
Bessie Smith
this major dramatic actor’s performance in Othello was widely acclaimed
Paul Robeson
in many of her novels, books of folklore, poetry, and short stories, this writer portrayed the lives of poor, unschooled Southern African Americans
Zora Neale Hurston