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- 2. was an American professional baseball player whose career in major league baseball spanned 22 seasons, from 1914 through 1935. He played on Boston Red Sox (1914-1919), New York Yankees (1920-1934) , Boston Braves (1935) and making an appearance on Providence Gray. And has a candy bar named after him.
- 5. was an American politician and the 30th president of the United States. A Republican Lawyer from from New England, born on July 4, 1872 in Vermont, and is the only president ever to be born on independence day. He was nicknamed "the silent cal" due to his lack of speech as president.
- 6. was the 29th president of the United States from 1921 until his death in 1923. In historical rankings of the U.S. Presidents, he is often rated among the worst. He is theorized to have been poisoned by his wife.
- 9. In the summer of 1914, while working as a soda jerk at the Poodle Dog Café, he wrote his first composition, "Soda Fountain Rag" (also known as the "Poodle Dog Rag"). He made eight records in 1924, receiving composing credit on three including "Choo Choo".
- 10. he was one of the most influential figures in jazz. He heard the early sounds of jazz from bands that played in brothels and dance halls such as Pete Lala's, where King Oliver performed. He made a cameo appearance as a vocalist, regularly stealing the show with his rendition of "Ain't Misbehavin'". His version of the song became his biggest selling record to date.
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- 1. He ultimately combined the economic nationalist ideas of Booker T. Washington and Pan-Africanists with the political possibilities and urban style of men and women living outside of plantation and colonial societies. In January 1922, charges of mail fraud were brought against him. In the month following another indictment was made for mail fraud and conspiracy against him and three of his associates.
- 3. He famously wrote about the period “when Harlem was in vogue”. He was one of the earliest innovators of the then-new literary art form called jazz poetry. His thought united people of African descent and Africa across the globe to encourage pride in there diverse black folk culture and black aesthetic. He was one of the most important writers and thinkers of the Harlem Renaissance, which was the African American artistic movement in the 1920s which celebrated black life and culture.
- 4. was the imperial wizard of the Ku Klux Klan, an American white supremacist group, from 1922 to 1939. Born on September 26, 1881 in Ashland, Alabama. He established a small, moderately successful dentistry practice in downtown Dallas that provided inexpensive services. Until 1920, where he then joined the Klan’s Dallas chapter. He quickly rose through the ranks and was part of a group that ousted William Simmons from the position of Imperial Wizard the national leader.
- 7. was a teacher in Dayton, Tennessee, who was charged on May 5, 1925, with violating Tennessee's Butler Act, which prohibited the teaching of evolution in Tennessee schools. The Depression combined with being a significant figure of the scopes trail affected his career.
- 8. was an American blues singer. Nicknamed the Empress of the Blues, she was the most popular female blues singer of the 1920s and 1930s. She is often regarded as one of the greatest singers of her era and was a major influence on other jazz singers.