African American Culture and Politics

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Across
  1. 2. Along the first musical written, produced, and performed by African Americans
  2. 3. to represent or express
  3. 6. a musical style influenced by Dixieland and ragtime, with syncopated rhythms and improvisational elements
  4. 7. jazz music became associated with the
  5. 9. Movement of blacks migrating
  6. 10. the first important writer of the Harlem Renaissance
  7. 11. Uprising of African American Arts
  8. 15. The Great Migration of African Americans to the North had a significant
  9. 16. wrote some of the first major stories featuring African American women as central characters
  10. 18. got his start at the Cotton Club, the most famous nightclub in Harlem
  11. 19. first African American representative in Congress from a Northern state
Down
  1. 1. a soulful style of music that evolved from African American spirituals.
  2. 2. The NAACP battled hard against
  3. 4. The 1920s was a time of
  4. 5. founded the Universal Negro Improvement Association
  5. 8. many of the popular jazz singers were women
  6. 12. broke away from the New Orleans tradition of group playing by performing highly imaginative solos on the cornet and trumpet
  7. 13. Jazz helped reduce
  8. 14. known as the Empress of the Blues
  9. 17. leading voice of the African American experience in America