Ella Fitzgerald
Louis "Lepke" Buchalter
February 6, 1897 - March 4, 1944
Infamous Jewish mob boss who operated in the New York City Garmet district in the 30's and 40's. Lepke was part of the Murder Incorporated a group of killers who worked solely for the National Crime Syndicate in the 1930s. The assassins received assignments and payments to murder total strangers in the New York area or anywhere in the country, selected by the syndicate board. Murder, Inc. was destroyed when Reles turned informant in 1940. Lepke was executed in the Sing Sing Prison electric chair.
Cab Calloway
John Dillinger
Legs Diamond
1930's in print - neat headlines as helpers: http://xroads.virginia.edu/~1930s/PRINT/timeline.html
A general history page (for kids so it may be overly sanitized for data), with people:
http://www.factmonster.com/ipka/A0005247.html
A page about gangsters:
http://www.americanmafia.com/Cities/New_York_New_Jersey.html
More National Headlines and Prices of common items (if anyone wants to make a grocer's or any sort of store:
http://www.hunterdon-online.com/life99/html/1920.shtml
Some basic information on the Harlem Renaissance
http://www.geocities.com/afam_literature/20.htm
and http://www.tcps.k12.md.us/ehs/lib/harren.html
Sinclair Lewis
Al Capone
Ma Barker
Babyface Nelson.
Lionel Hampton
Billie Holiday
Mayor Fiorello LaGuardia
Lucky Luciano
William Randolph Hearst (newspaper owner - incredibly rich and powerful)
John D Rockefeller Sr http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/amex/rockefellers/timeline/timeline3.html
Charles Lindbergh (the Lindbergh baby kidnapping is still considered th most famous kidnapping case) and/or his wife Anne Morrow http://www.charleslindbergh.com/history/index.asp - notice his complaints against the war and for noninvolement - be careful to accurately present him
http://www.flash.net/~whaugen/smith.htm
http://www.csustan.edu/english/reuben/pal/chap9/9intro.html on the harlem renaissance with the pivotal writers and artists
People can always be visiting too: HG Wells (sci-fi writer): http://www.online-literature.com/wellshg/
Virginia Woolf (great writer and women's rights activist) http://www.online-literature.com/virginia_woolf/
Agatha Christie (writer) http://www.online-literature.com/agatha_christie/