Harlem Renaissance - upper Manhattan

Art for African Americans, cultural explosion

Poetry, artwork, music
Opened the door for art to explode (writing poetry, paintings)
Music was key- jazz specifically
The cotton club

Stock market crash:

Wall Street Crash of 1929 began on October 24- Black Thursday
Companies losing lots of money, dramatic decline of stock prices
People sold their stocks, prices were lowered, couldnt repay banks for loans,
bankruptcy
Problematic, lead to Great Depression

Charles Lindberg
Flew transatlantic New York to Paris
nonstop
Spirit of st. louis
Sleep was challenge
33 and a half hours
No autopilot
He had to train for sleep deprivation huge part of the challenge
Range of the plane
Gigantic fuel plane