The Great Depression and despair would follow what had been an era of pros-perity, happiness, indulgence, excess, reck-lessness, and insouciance as the American life seemed fundamentally sound. All of it came to a screeching halt, but much of the Flapper's changes remained. They broke away from the Victorian image of woman-hood, and came out as a "new" or "modern" woman—their legacy to us.
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SCIENCE:
Albert Einstein
Sigmund Freud
Alexander Fleming
Georges Lemaître
Edwin P. Hubble
LITERATURE:
Bertolt Brecht
F. Scott Fitzgerald
Ernest Hemingway
Zelda Fitzgerald
T. S. Eliot
William Butler Yeats
Langston Hughes
Sinclair Lewis
Carl Sandburg
William Faulkner
Countee Cullen
ENTERTAINERS:
Charlie Chaplin
Buster Keaton
Josephine Baker
Clara Bow
Louise Brooks
Joan Crawford
Douglas Fairbanks
Greta Garbo
Harry Houdini
Harold Lloyd
Colleen Moore
Mary Pickford
Gloria Swanson
Norma Talmadge
Rudolph Valentino
Mary Astor
Ethel Barrymore
John Barrymore
Lionel Barrymore
Bebe Daniels
Marion Davies
John Gilbert
Dorothy Gish
Lillian Gish
Al Jolson
Anna May Wong
MUSICIANS:
George Gershwin
Al Jolson
Louis Armstrong
Irving Berlin
Duke Ellington
Jimmy Rodgers
Jelly Roll Morton
Cole Porter
Fats Waller
Joe Venuti
Béla Bartók
Joe "King" Oliver
Bessie Smith
Count Basie
King Oliver
Sidney Bechet
FILM MAKERS:
Harry Beaumont
Busby Berkeley
Charles Chaplin
Cecil B. DeMille
William C. DeMille
Victor Fleming
John Ford
D. W. Griffith
Alfred Hitchcock
Rex Ingram
Buster Keaton
Fritz Lang
Ernst Lubitsch
Lewis Milestone
Erich von Stroheim
King Vidor
Robert Wiene
ARTISTS:
Max Beckmann
Georges Braque
André Breton
Alexander Calder
Marc Chagall
Salvador Dalí
Arthur Dove
Marcel Duchamp
Max Ernst
Wassily Kandinsky
Paul Klee
Gaston Lachaise
Fernand Léger
René Magritte
André Masson
Henri Matisse
Joan Miró
Pablo Picasso
ARCHITECTS:
Marcel Breuer
Le Corbusier
Frank Lloyd Wright
Some Influential People of the Twenties
SOURCES: http://visforvintage.net/2012/07/19/get-the-1920s-flapper-look/, http://www.u-s-history.com/pages/h1564.html, http://www.thepeoplehistory.com/1920s.html, http://history1900s.about.com/od/1920s/a/flappers.htm, http://www.fadmag.com/items/flmingy/flmgyth2.htm, http://www.1920s-fashion-and-music.com/, https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=1920s_in_Western_fashion&oldid=672162374”, http://www.bragvintage.co.uk/blog/the-flapper-era/, http://www.costumesupercenter.com/csc_inc/html/static/btarticles/JazzAgeFlapperCulture.html, http://www.brilliantprints.com.au/uncategorized/the-guardian-presents-the-flapper/, http://thegatsbygreenlight.blogspot.com/2010/05/flappers-flappers-flappers-galore.html, http://www.ushistory.org/us/46d.asp, http://www.smh.com.au/entertainment/books/all-in-a-flap-20130611-2o1gq.html, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jazz_Age, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harlem_Renaissance, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flapper, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Art_Deco, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1920s
Moments in History
In 1922, Gandhi preached mass civil disobedience, non-violence, and peaceful resistance against British Rule in India. British Authorities sentenced him to six years' imprisonment.
In 1923, King Tutankhamun's Tomb is discovered and opened by Howard Carter, who enters King Tutankhamun's burial chamber.
In 1927, Charles Lindbergh becomes the first person to fly solo across the Atlantic Ocean (May 20–21), nonstop from New York to Paris.
In 1928, Alexander Flemming discovers penicillin, which changed the world of modern medicine by introducing the age of antibiotics.