THE ROARING 20S 1920 1929
AMERICAN POLITICS IN THE 1920S
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Langston Hughes
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Billy Sunday
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William Jennings Bryan
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Al Capone
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Detailed explanation-1: -William Ashley “Billy” Sunday (November 19, 1862 – November 6, 1935) was an American outfielder in baseball’s National League and widely considered the most influential American evangelist during the first two decades of the 20th century. Story County, Iowa, U.S. Chicago, Illinois, U.S.
Detailed explanation-2: -Billy Sunday (1862-1935) began his career as a baseball player for the Chicago White Stockings, but later became one of the country’s best known evangelists. Between 1896 and 1935 he gave an estimated 20, 000 sermons. Read more about it!
Detailed explanation-3: -Billy Sunday, byname of William Ashley Sunday, (born Nov. 19, 1862/63, Ames, Iowa, U.S.-died Nov. 6, 1935, Chicago), American evangelist whose revivals and sermons reflected the emotional upheavals caused by transition from rural to industrial society in the United States.
Detailed explanation-4: -He was a household name in the early 1900s, and could be as influential as presidents and governors.
Detailed explanation-5: -Albert McMakin, who worked on the Graham farm, persuaded him to go see evangelist Mordecai Ham. According to his autobiography, Graham was 16 when he was converted during a series of revival meetings that Ham led in Charlotte in 1934.