What is your favourite memory from your childhood?

answer: common sense was the pamphlet that thomas paine used to convince reluctant americans to abandon the goal of reconciling with britain and to accept that independence was the only option to preserve their liberty.

harlem's  cotton club boasted the talents of duke ellington. singers such as bessie smith and billie holiday popularized blues and jazz vocals. jelly roll morton and louis armstrong drew huge audiences as white americans as well as african americans caught jazz fever.