Roaring 20s Cultural Icons

I was a painter, writer, producer, pianist, orchestra leader, jazz composer, and a singer. I played at the Cotton Club. I sold refreshments at baseball games and liked Babe Ruth. One song was “It Don’t Mean a Thing if it Ain’t Got That Swing.” Who am

Improved the automobile; changed the mechanization of car manufacturing with the use of the assembly line

My paintings depicted flowers, nature, urban scenes, and eventually the Southwest. I lost my eyesight late in life, so I quit painting and began to work with clay. I owned my own art museum. Who am I?

Believed there was a link between building a bike and building a flying machine; invented the airplane

was a composer who wrote uniquely American music. I went to the University of North Carolina and then to Paris to study music. I wrote “Rodeo Hoedown” and “Appalachian Spring.” Who am I?

I was a young, blacan cultural roots in my poetry. I moved to NYC during the Great Migration. Who am I?

was a famous composer of American music and a pianist. I like to write music for both comedies and symphonies. My parents immigrated to the US from Russia. Two of my songs were “Porgy and Bess” and “Rhapsody in Blue.” Who am I?

African American cultural anthropologists and writer associated with the Harlem Renaissance who celebrated the African American culture of the rural South. Who am I?

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