Black History Month: Faces of Harlem

6. This drummer became the bandleader at the Savoy Ballroom by age 20.
7. This actor received death threats to star in Eugene O'Neill's "All God's Chillun Got Wings' which featured an interracial romance
10. This painter was commissoned by the WPA to paint "Aspects of Negro Life", a four-panel mural for the 135th Street Branch of the New York Public Library.
11. This musician wrote the first jazz composition in the form of a concerto and invented his own harmonic language.
12. He became the assistant editor of Opportunity Magazine where he wrote his own column entitled "The Dark Tower"
14. This famous sculptor became first director of Harlem's Community Arts Center.
15. This actress starred in "Within Our Gates (1920)" which told the story of a woman who survives an attempted assault by a white man who is actually her biological father.

1. This actor made his Broadway debut in 1919 playing the role of the preacher and former slave Custis in John Drinkwater's "Abraham Lincoln"
2. Her 1937 novel "Their Eyes Were Watching god" describes an independent black woman's search for independnece.
3. He produced the first African-American feature film in 1919, "The Homesteader"
4. Known as the "King of Savoy" this dancer was formed his own dance troupe that performed across Harlem
5. This singers first release, "Down-Hearted Blues," sold more than 750,000 copies in one month.
8. This triple threat got her big break as the lead in the hit musical "Shuffle Along"
9. He was known as "Poet Laureate of Harlem"
13. He was nick named the "Human Boa Constrictor," and invented a dance called the "Snakehips" in the early 1930s.