A Letter From The South - Crossword Puzzle
Across
- 4. Northern Negro in the South sees, whatever he or anyone else may wish to believe, that his ancestors are both ______e. The white men… hate him for that very reason.
- 8. Less conservative part of the US
- 10. Marriage between two different races, especially white people
- 11. The Negro level is low because the education of Negroes occurs in, and is designed to perpetuate, a segregated _______.
- 13. Where Baldwin travels to and discusses his journey in “Nobody Knows My Name: A Letter From the South”.
Down
- 1. Baldwin comments on the ____ relations in Atlanta and the difference between rural and city Negros.
- 2. South images that it “_____” the Negro, the North imagines that it has set him free. Both camps are deluded. Human freedom is a complex, difficult—and private—thing…
- 3. The recovery of this standard demands of everyone who loves this country a hard look at himself, for the greatest achievements must begin somewhere, and they always begin with the person. If we are not capable of this examination, we may yet become one of the most distinguished and monumental _____ in the history of nations.
- 5. last word in “Nobody Knows My Name: A Letter From the South”.
- 6. Conservative part of the US
- 7. Baldwin's first name.
- 9. I was, in short, but one ____ removed from the South, which was now undergoing a new convulsion over whether black children had the same rights… for education as did the children of white people…and it is being carried on, in complete bad faith, by completely uneducated people
- 12. This illusion owes everything to the great American illusion that our state is a state to be envied by other people: we are powerful, and we are rich. But our power makes us uncomfortable and we handle it very _____.
- 14. This crossword deserves an __.