17-5: African American Culture and Politics

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Across
  1. 6. American jazz music was also one of the first American cultural _________ that had a significant impact on the rest of the world.
  2. 10. The first African American representative in Congress from a Northern state.
  3. 11. Garvey proposed leading them to ________.
  4. 12. defeated the bill
  5. 14. Battles Injustice
  6. 16. "Movement of blacks" migrating to New York.
  7. 18. What of the Harlem Renaissance helped to instill a strong sense of pride, defiance, and confidence in African Americans?
  8. 19. Style of music evolving from African American spirituals and noted for its melancholy sound.
Down
  1. 1. In 1928, ___________ voters in Chicago helped elect Oscar DePriest.
  2. 2. In 1927 President _________ used Garvey’s immigrant status to have him deported to Jamaica.
  3. 3. Set the stage for African Americans to reenter American politics.
  4. 4. Captured the imagination of millions of African Americans with his “Negro Nationalism.”
  5. 5. Some of them started calling for African Americans to separate from ______ society
  6. 7. The________ judge allegedly was racist and antilabor.
  7. 8. The central message of Garvey’s Harlem-based movement was that African Americans could gain economic and political power by __________ themselves.
  8. 9. American style of music that developed from ragtime and blues and that uses syncopated rhythms and improvisation.
  9. 13. What also grew popular during the Harlem Renaissance?
  10. 15. Main city where Harlem Renaissance happened.
  11. 16. First important writer of the Harlem Renaissance.
  12. 17. A writer who became a leading voice of the African American experience in America.