Goal 9 People Founder of the NAACP and editor of its newsletter, The Crisis Sports superstar of the 1920s, hit 60 homeruns in a 154 game season, larger-than-life personality “Lucky Lindy,” the first person to make a solo flight across the Atlantic Ocean, his family later entered the spotlight when his infant son was kidnapped and murdered Former baseball player and fundamentalist preacher who spoke in favor of Prohibition and built wooden tabernacles Tennessee teacher put on trial for teaching evolution in the classroom Author of The Origin of Species & The Descent of Man, proponent of the theories of evolution & survival of the fittest The two stars of the Scopes “Monkey” Trial who faced off in a 10-day courtroom duel of cultures Evangelist & faith healer who built a huge temple complete with two radio towers in Los Angeles U.S. History
Chicago bootlegger & gangster sent to prison for tax evasion Chicago “Untouchables” leader who brought Al Capone to justice President elected in 1920 who promised a post-war “return to normalcy” Vice president who became president upon the death of Warren G. Harding; “laissez faire” president President elected in 1928; promoted “voluntary action” and “rugged individualism in first years of the Great Depression “The Little Tramp,” silent film star Black singer & model who became a popular entertainer in Paris Advocate of women’s rights & birth control; founder of Planned Parenthood Grant Wood’s portrait of Iowa farmers, usually interpreted as critical of “Bible-thumping” rural America African American novelist & folklorist, author of Their Eyes Were Watching God The most celebrated poet of the Harlem Renaissance Only president elected to office four times; issues during presidency: Great Depression & New Deal, World War II, development of the atomic bomb Nickname given to Oklahoma migrants who moved to California seeking work; famously captured in photograph by Dorothea Lange Most popular trumpet player of the 1920s and 1930s, nicknamed “Satchmo” Author of Babbit, which criticized the narrow-minded values of middle class America “Lost Generation” author of The Sun Also Rises & A Farewell to Arms Author of The Great Gatsby The original “it girl,” flapper & sex symbol of the 1920s Black nationalist & founder of the “Back to Africa” movement and the Universal Negro Improvement Association “Shoeless” star of the Chicago White Sox who was banned from Major League Baseball under suspicion he had taken money to “throw” the 1919 World Series
Al Capone Calvin Coolidge “Okies” Sinclair Lewis Josephine Baker Eliot Ness Herbert Hoover Louis Armstrong Ernest Hemingway Margaret Sanger Warren G. Harding Franklin D. Roosevelt Charlie Chaplin F. Scott Fitzgerald American Gothic
Clarence Darrow & William Jennings Bryan Zora Neale Hurston Marcus Garvey Billy Sunday John Scopes Charles Darwin Langston Hughes Joe Jackson Charles Lindbergh Clarence Darrow & William Jennings Bryan Clara Bow W.E.B. DuBois Babe Ruth Aimee Semple McPherson