Harlem Renaissance poets: Claude McKay, Langston Hughes, and Countee Cullen
Boxers: Jack Dempsey and Gene Tunney
Trials: Sacco and Vanzetti, Lindbergh kidnapping, Scopes
Presidents: Harding, Coolidge, and Hoover
Movie Stars: Charlie Chaplin, Mary Pickford, Douglas Fairbanks, Rudolph Valentino, and Clara Bow
Pilots: Charles Lindbergh and Amelia Earhardt
If you have the Fitzgeralds, then you've covered the white literary flowering of the '20s. So think about some other major things that were going on at the time and look for people who could be used to symbolize that.
Some examples might include:
- Clarence Darrow and William Jennings Bryan. These were the opposing attorneys in the Scopes Monkey Trial, which means they're connected to the idea of fundamentalism.
- Sacco and Vanzetti. They're connected to the idea of fear of immigrants and fear of radicals.
- Marcus Garvey and Langston Hughes. Or Louis Armstrong. All of these people are connected with the idea of the "New Negro" and the Harlem Renaissance.
- Calvin Coolidge and Warren Harding or Herbert Hoover. These were the Republican presidents of the '20s who were known for their pro-business attitudes.
Hopefully one of those pairs will work for you....