Harlem Renaissance

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  1. 3. a popular stage entertainment featuring songs, dances, and comic dialogue in highly conventionalized patterns, usually performed by white actors in blackface
  2. 5. periods made formed to speak to the concerns of different groups of people and historical periods.
  3. 8. Author of "The Color Purple"
  4. 9. an interpretation is an anthology of fiction, poetry, and essays on African and African-American art and literature
  5. 10. Place where alcoholic drinks are bought and consumed illegally, as during prohibition
  6. 13. strategies like rebellion, secession, or the various Back to Africa movements
  7. 14. the movement of 6 million blacks out of the Southern United States to the Northeast, Midwest, and West
  8. 16. Missouri-born poet who described the difficult lives of working-class African Americans.
  9. 18. an enormously popular 1920s dance
  10. 19. First African-American to win a Pulitzer Prize
  11. 22. a Southern dialect term meaning remarkable or sprited
  12. 23. black person, passing as a white person in the U.S. *General: a person passing as another race.
  13. 24. A author who wrote "Mules and Men" and "Tell my Horse"
  14. 25. Self Taught musician. He developed skills by playing at family socials. Created "Soda Fountain Rag."
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  1. 1. a popular 1920's dance
  2. 2. When Reconstruction ended in 1877, and well into the 20th Century, Racial prejudice was prevalent in the law and in Southern Society, through terrorist organizations like the Ku Klux Klan. An Average of 150 southern blacks were lynched each year.
  3. 4. The most successful black performing artist and recorded with the biggest names in music of at the time; Died in a car accident in 1936
  4. 6. wrote "Black Manhattan" and "The Book of American Negro Poetry"
  5. 7. a term that designated a leadership class of African-Americans in the early twentieth century.
  6. 11. father figure of the harlem renaissance, b/c without his support, many black artists during the era would not have been successful. Editor of "the New Negro" Had a vision that black artists and writers should use African roots as the basis of their art and culture.
  7. 12. Bloody anti black riots in 1919
  8. 15. prejudice, discrimination, or antagonism directed against a person or people on the basis of their membership in a particular racial or ethnic group, typically one that is a minority or marginalized
  9. 17. a collection of poetry published in 1925 by Langston Hughes
  10. 20. Historically in the United States, a person has been considered black if he or she has only ___ of African Blood
  11. 21. Nightclub where Louis Armstrong and duke elliginton played