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Gertrude Stein is born in Allegheny City (Pittsburgh) February 3rd,1874
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John Mercer Langston Hughes is born in Joplin Missouri, February 1st, 1902
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Cubisim movement -1907-1914 Artists Pablo Picasso and Georges Braque are the driving forces of a visual arts style that rejects traditional techniques in favor of radically fragmented objects. "Femme en Pleurs" Pablo Picasso, 1937
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A painting by Georges Braques that shows a whole new perspesctive in the form of cubism.
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Influenced by the Cubisim movement and friend Pablo Picasso, Stein writes the book Tender Buttons. It consists of 3 sections:"Objects","Food" and "Rooms". https://youtu.be/FJEIAGULmPQ
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https://youtu.be/o9Pz1yLDDM8
"Nightlife", 1943, Archibald John Motley Jr.
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Bessie SmithWritten by Charles Warfield and Clarence Williams in 1919, the song fits the theme of pessimism.
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National Constitution Center "After one year form the ratification of this article the manufacture, sale, or transportation of intoxicating liqours within, the importation thereof into, or the exportation thereof from the United States and all territory subject to the jurisdiction thereof for beverage purposes is hereby prohibited."
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The 19th amendmant guarantees women the right to vote.
http://www.britannica.com/topic/Nineteenth-Amendment http://tse1.mm.bing.net/th?&id=OIP.Md930b8eb6c26abb1e8bf937452c29306o0&w=300&h=300&c=0&pid=1.9&rs=0&p=0 -
Different musicians that made up the early jazz movement in the 1920's.
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Suerrealism's goal was to express the unconscious mind. It developed a from the artform of Dada and was lead by the artist Andre Breton. This image shows Max Ernst, "The Elephant Celebes".
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Although the cubism movement started before 1920, it took off during the early 1920's with the likes of Georges Braque and Pablo Picaso.
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The union of the Soviet Socialist Republics .
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The Supreme Court ruled that the mob outside the court house during the trial of these twelve men denied them due process and though they were all sentenced to death, they were eventually all freed.
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A popular hangout spot for "Whites" only, but featured many African Americans inlcuding Louis Armstrong, Billie Holliday and Duke Ellington. Much of the music disrupted audiences expectations.
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The 'strange' death of Warren G. Harding *Died in the presidential suite at the San Franscisco Palace Hotel
*President was on a 15,000 mile speaking tour
*"a stroke of cerebral apoplexy"-Herbert Hoover
*VP Calvin Coolidge sworn in as president
*Heart attack at age 58
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*Set immigration quotas for individual countries based on number of foreign nationals living in US in 1890.
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F. Scott Fitzgerald writes his classic book on the cross of classes in the Jazz Age.
https://youtu.be/FJEIAGULmPQ
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Langston Hughes reciting "the Weary Blues" to blues music.
https://youtu.be/uM7HSOwJw20
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Aviator Charles Lindbergh makes the 1st solo flight across the Atlantic non-stop direct, from New York to Paris on May 20th 1927 in his plane the "Spirit Of St, Louis"
http://www.charleslindbergh.com/history/paris.asp
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Ends the mark of silent film era https://youtu.be/-iX2lg4eYwQ
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Professor Alexander Fleming discover penicillin. Introducing the modern -age of antibiotics.
https://youtu.be/CIkUtfJ0yYQ
https://sites.google.com/a/mymodtown.com/imported-site/_/rsrc/1411929298276/spotlight-stories-news/Alexander-Flemings-Discovery-of-Penicillin-86-Years-Ago-Today/alexander-fleming1.jpg -
Biography: 31. Herbert Hoover *stock market crashed and the Great Depression began.
*blamed for economic catastrophe
*encouraged businesses and organizations to refine operations and refused to assert forceful presidential leadership.
*Encouraged private sector to coe to aid and federal government appeared apethitic and weak
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Faulkners "The Sound and The Fury" is published. This book gave four different externalized and internalized voices out of chronological order.
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Timeline of the Great Depression *stock prices plummet Oct. 24 "Black Thursday"
*stock market crashes Oct. 29 "Black Tuesday"
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Gertrude Stein dies in Neuilly-Su-Seine France , July 27th, 1946
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Louis Armstrong's "What a Wonderful World" is released.
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