U4 Key People

Vocabulary flashcards covering key historical figures across entertainment, popular culture, music, the Harlem Renaissance, business, activism, and major trials.

Charlie Chaplin

Iconic movie star and comedian famous for silent films.

Charles Lindbergh

Pilot who completed the first nonstop solo transatlantic flight.

Babe Ruth

Legendary baseball player who became a major national sports icon.

W.C. Handy

"Father of the Blues" musician who popularized blues music nationwide.

Bessie Smith

Famous blues singer known as the "Empress of the Blues."

Louis Armstrong

Influential jazz trumpeter and singer during the Harlem Renaissance.

Duke Ellington

Acclaimed jazz pianist and big band composer.

Langston Hughes

Famous Harlem Renaissance poet and writer who highlighted African American life and social inequality.

Zora Neale Hurston

Celebrated author and folklorist of the Harlem Renaissance.

Henry Ford

Industrialist who revolutionized automobile production using the assembly line.

Margaret Sanger

Key advocate for women's healthcare and birth control access.

Ida B. Wells

Crusading journalist and activist who led anti-lynching campaigns.

Marcus Garvey

Founder of Garveyism and the Universal Negro Improvement Association (UNIA), promoting Black pride and self-reliance.

John Scopes

High school teacher tried in 1925 for teaching evolution in a Tennessee public school.

Sacco and Vanzetti

Italian immigrant anarchists whose controversial trial symbolized 1920s nativism and anti-radical bias.