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Famous People 20s 30
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Name | Importance |
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David Sarnoff | leader in broadcast industry |
Guglielmo Marconi | invented way to send wireless messages (radio) |
Bessie Smith | famous blues singer |
Duke Ellington | world famous jazz pianist and composer |
Louis Armstrong | African American jazz musician and singer |
Henry Ford | used assembly line to make inexpensive cars |
Georgia O'Keeffe | artist of urban scenes and paintings of the Southwest |
F. Scott Fitzgerald | novelist, wrote about the Jazz Age (his term) |
John Steinback | novelist, who wrote how strong the poor migrant workers were |
George Gershwin | composer who wrote uniquely American music |
Aaron Copland | composer who wrote uniquely American music |
Langston Hughes | poet, combined experiences of African and American cultural roots |
Jacob Lawrence | painter, showed the experiences of the Great Migration north |