Authors, Poets, and Playwrights

towns of shacks and tents built by the homeless apex sem 2

During the 1920's the flappers represented a change in the American woman in society. They started showing skin with shorter skirts. They started wearing shorter hair and makeup. The skinny boyish figure was stylish at this time and, in some cases, so was unisex fashion. They drank, smoked, cursed, danced, participated in petting parties, and engaged in other activities seen as scandalous by the society of the day.

Racial discrimination and poverty were issues that encouraged Communist Party membership.

In "The Negro Digs Up His Past," Arthur Schomburg is discussing the he study of the history of African Americans.

Arthur Alfonso Schomburg has written:

'The Arthur A. Schomburg papers' -- subject(s): African Americans, Archives, Blacks, History, Sources

Robert Thomas Kerlin has written:

'Contemporary poetry of the Negro' -- subject(s): African American authors, African Americans, African Americans in literature, American poetry, History and criticism, Intellectual life

'The church of the fathers' -- subject(s): Church history

'Negro poets and their poems' -- subject(s): African American authors, African American poets, African Americans, African Americans in literature, American poetry, Bibliography, Bio-bibliography, Biography, History and criticism, Intellectual life, Poetry

Pullman porters needed a union because they were not treated well.