1. 1920’s Project By:Stephanie Rodriguez Lilian Serrano Yvette Mejia Shade White

2. Artist:Jacob Lawrence Born on 1917 in Atlantic City, New Jersey. He died in the year 2000 At the age of 24, he became the first African American whose work was included in the permanent collection of the New York Museum of Modern Art. He considered himself an educator and artist. He used his art to tell stories about black history

3. Artist: Jacob Lawrence Jacob Lawrence was twenty-one years old when he completed the forty-one panel Toussaint L'Ouverture series in 1938. Jacob Lawrence painted forty-one small works that chronologically documented the history of the Haitian revolution.

4. Musician: Louis Armstrong He was born in 1901 Louis played jazz on his cornet He was from a very poor family and was sent to reform school when he was twelve after firing a gun in the air on New Year's Eve. At the school he learned to play cornet.

5. Musician: Louis Armstrong Oliver was his favorite and the older man acted as a father to Louis, even giving him his first real cornet, and instructing him on the instrument.Oliver By 1917 he played in an Oliver inspired group at dive bars in New Orleans' Storyville section. In 1919 he left New Orleans for the first time to join Fate Marable's band in St. Louis.OliverFate Marable's The records made by Louis Armstrong's Hot Five and Hot Seven are considered to be absolute jazz classicsLouis Armstrong's Hot FiveHot Seven

6. Musician: Duke Ellington Born on April 29, 1899 in Washington, D.C. Died: May 24, 1974 in New York City Duke Ellington was one of the founding fathers of jazz music. He started playing piano at the age of seven, and by the time he was 15, he was composing.

7. Musician: Duke Ellington Duke began playing music professionally in Washington, D.C. in 1917. The song "East St. Louis Toodle-Oo" is a good example of this style of playing."East St. Louis Toodle-Oo" The group recorded their first record in 1924 ("Choo Choo (Gotta Hurry Home)" and "Rainy Nights (Rainy Days)", but the band didn't hit the big time until after Irving Mills became their manager and publisher in 1926.Choo Choo (Gotta Hurry Home)Rainy Nights (Rainy Days)Irving Mills