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American culture
Art, music, literature, people, sports, technology, business, politics, religion and more in the United States. American culture is primarily Western, but is influenced by African, Asian, and Latin American and Native American cultures.
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American culture
Carson McCullers
Culture; American culture
(1917 – 1967) Born in Georgia, and later a close friend of Tennessee Williams, McCullers is considered an heir to the Southern Gothic tradition of William Faulkner. An essayist and poet, she is ...
Fannie Lou Hamer
Culture; American culture
(1917 – 1977) Born a sharecropper in Mississippi, Fannie Lou Hamer became involved in the Civil Rights movement when she volunteered to attempt registering to vote in 1962 as part of the Black ...
Robert Lowell
Culture; American culture
(1917 – 1977) He would not be a proper scion (such good New England stock!). He would not be a Harvard man (rather a “fugitive” at Kenyon College). He would not fight in the First World War (366 days ...
Thelonious Sphere Monk
Culture; American culture
(1917 – 1982) Visionary composer and pianist who was part of the select group of musicians who created the postwar jazz genre of bebop, and whose influence continued into the postbebop era. Moving to ...
Billy Graham
Culture; American culture
(born 1918) Preacher William Franklin Graham, Jr brought evangelical religion to the global stage via mass revivals and mass media. After his childhood in the Depression South. Graham turned to the ...
Jacqueline Susann
Culture; American culture
(1918 – 1974) Potboiler author of scandalous novels set in the entertainment industry. Valley of the Dolls shocked the 1960s with descriptions of sex and loose lifestyles, while the film version of ...
Leonard Bernstein
Culture; American culture
(1918 – 1990) An American composer and pianist, Leonard Bernstein also conducted the Boston Symphony and the New York Philharmonic Orchestras. A child prodigy he was committed to bringing symphonic ...
