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Vor 4 Tagen · June 1, 2024, 5:09 AM ET (USA Today) Tulsa Race Massacre of 1921: Latest on survivors, search for graves. The Tulsa race massacre of 1921 was one of the most severe incidents of racial violence in U.S. history. It occurred in Tulsa, Oklahoma, beginning on May 31, 1921, and lasting for two days.
- The Editors of Encyclopaedia Britannica
Vor 3 Tagen · The Great Gatsby is a 1925 novel by American writer F. Scott Fitzgerald. Set in the Jazz Age on Long Island, near New York City, the novel depicts first-person narrator Nick Carraway 's interactions with mysterious millionaire Jay Gatsby and Gatsby's obsession to reunite with his former lover, Daisy Buchanan .
- F. Scott Fitzgerald
- 1925
Vor 4 Tagen · It's no secret that people's day-to-day lives in the 1920s were very different than they are now. Prohibition, the 19th Amendment, and the Harlem Renaissance were key points of the decade. Jazz,...
Vor 2 Tagen · Marcus Garvey, charismatic Black leader who organized the first important American Black nationalist movement (1919–26), based in New York City’s Harlem. He reached the height of his power in 1920, when he presided at an international convention, with delegates present from 25 countries.
- Marcus Garvey organized the United States’ first Black nationalist movement. In the years following World War I, he urged Black Americans to be pro...
- Marcus Garvey left his native Jamaica for the United States in 1916. He established branches of his Universal Negro Improvement Association through...
- Marcus Garvey’s style of Black nationalism clashed with that of the 1920s Black establishment, notably with W.E.B. Du Bois, head of the National As...
- While Marcus Garvey’s views were unorthodox for the time, his influence ultimately declined when he began to engage in questionable business dealin...
Vor 3 Tagen · Fashion-wise, women were dressed in cloche hats, tubular silhouettes with drop waists, and handkerchief hemlines boldly skimming shins – which were on show for the very first time. A breakdown of all these 1920s fashion trends and more, below. Vogue.
Vor 3 Tagen · Albert Einstein (born March 14, 1879, Ulm, Württemberg, Germany—died April 18, 1955, Princeton, New Jersey, U.S.) was a German-born physicist who developed the special and general theories of relativity and won the Nobel Prize for Physics in 1921 for his explanation of the photoelectric effect.
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