Modern
1900-1950
Writes during this time
Robert Frost
Langston Hughes
Jack London
William Faulkner
T.S. Eliot
Arthur Miller
Important dates
1914 - ww1 begins
1917 - us enters ww1
1920 - roaring 20s ( 19 amendment , stock market crash, and jazz singer opens)
1939 - ww2 begins
1950 - Korean War
Education
Rockefeller
Philanthropists like Rockefeller encouraged non segregated school systems.
Phelps Stokes
Was also a Philanthropist who supported non segregated schools.
Mary McLeod Bethune
Was an educator that opened the first African American girls school.