People Chapter 34

U.S. attorney general who rounded up thousands of alleged Bolsheviks in the red scare of 1919-1920

Italian American anarchists whose trial and execution aroused widespread protest

Top gangster of the 1920s, eventually convicted of income-tax evasion

Leading American philosopher and proponent of "progressive education"

Former presidential candidate who led the fight against evolution at the 1925 Scopes trial

Mechanical genius and organizer of the mass-produced automobile industry

A leader of the advertising industry and author of a new interpretation of Christ in 'The Man Nobody Knows'

The "Poet Laureate" of Harlem and author of 'The Weary Blues'

Humble aviation pioneer who became a cultural hero of the 1920s

Jamaican-born leader who enhanced African American pride despite his failed migration plans

Viennese psychologist whose writings were interpreted by Americans as a call for sexual liberation and gratification

Baltimore write who criticized the supposedly narrow and hypocritical values of American society

H.L. Mencken

Innovative writer whose novels reflected the disillusionment of many Americans with propaganda and patriotic idealism

U.S. treasury secretary who attempted to promote business investment by reducing taxes on the rich