Smith each show more than one of the big historical changes in the 1920sfound in Eric Foner, Give Me Liberty, chapter 20 and the lecture slide show by Michael Pebworth? What did Louis Armstrong and Bessie Smith do that had an affect on many other people at that time? What important transformations in many other people's lives at that time do these two musicians illustrate? Here the two questions put another way: if you know the stories of Armstrong and Smith, what bigger historical stories from the 1920s do you know about? How do we know that these two musicians did things that had an impact on lots of people at that time?

Smith each show more than one of the big historical changes in the 1920sfound in Eric Foner, Give Me Liberty, chapter 20 and the lecture slide show by Michael Pebworth? What did Louis Armstrong and Bessie Smith do that had an affect on many other people at that time? What important transformations in many other people's lives at that time do these two musicians illustrate? Here the two questions put another way: if you know the stories of Armstrong and Smith, what bigger historical stories from the 1920s do you know about? How do we know that these two musicians did things that had an impact on lots of people at that time?