Black History Month: Poets

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Across
  1. 2. President Obama gave Angelou the Presidential Medal of _________.
  2. 5. A ______ is a certain way of speaking.
  3. 8. Langston Hughes won a scholarship to _______ University.
  4. 9. Langston Hughes was a leader of the ______ Renaissance.
  5. 11. In the 1960s, the South was ________, so black people were not allowed in many places.
Down
  1. 1. Hughes’ first book was called, “Not Without ______”.
  2. 3. What state were both Maya Angelou and Langston Hughes born in?
  3. 4. Which president was being inaugurated when Amanda Gorman read her poem?
  4. 6. In his teens, Hughes started to write _____.
  5. 7. Angelou’s most famous work is named, “I Know Why the ____ Bird Sings”.
  6. 10. What kind of music inspired Hughes?