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[General Resources] [People of the Twenties]

General Resources

• American Cultural History - Decade 1920 -1929
• 20th Century History by the Decades from the Chico High School Library : 1920s
• Herbert Hoover Presidential Library and Museum: Gallery Three: The Roaring Twenties
• 1920 Flappers (fashion) - from the Premier Designs Historic Clothing site
• Fashion Through the Decades includes a page on the 1920s
• Flapper Station 2001: Your Connection to the Roaring Twenties
• United States Early Radio History
• A Passion for Jazz!

People of the 1920s

• Louis Armstrong - Jazz
• Clarence Birdseye - Quick Freezing
• Al Capone - Prohibition
• Texas Guinan - Prohibition
• Warren G. Harding - "Return to Normalcy"
• Carrie Chapman Catt - League of Women Voters
• Marcus Garvey - UNIA
• A. Mitchell Palmer - The Red Scare
• Frank B. Kellogg - Kellogg-Briand Pact
• Albert Fall - Teapot Dome Scandal
• Amelia Earhart - Flight
• Charles Lindberg - Spirit of Saint Louis
• Henry Ford - Model T
• George Gershwin - Concert Music
• Ernest Hemingway - Literature
• Langston Hughes - Harlem Renaissance
• "Izzy and Moe" - Prohibition
• Charlie Chaplin , Mary Pickford , Clara Bow - Movies
• Al Jolson - Talkies
• George Herman Ruth - Yankees
• Gertrude Ederle - English Channel
• Jack Dempsey - Heavyweight History
• Sacco and Vanzetti - Electric Chair
• John T. Scopes - "Monkey Trial"
• William Joseph Simmons - Ku Klux Klan 

Life in the 1930s and 1940s

• Voices From the Dust Bowl: The Charles L. Todd and Robert Sonkin Migrant Worker Collection 1940 -1941
• Now What a Time: Blues, Gospel, and the Fort Valley Music Festivals, 1938 -1943

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