Harlem Renaissance
Across
- 2. A dynamic leader from Jamaica who founded the Universal Negro Improvement Association
- 4. Zora Neale Hurston wrote stories about African American women as central characters, contributing to this.
- 8. This city became a center for jazz in Europe after World War I.
- 9. This organization worked to end segregation and discrimination against African Americans
- 13. This Harlem-based cultural movement emphasized racial pride and artistic expression.
- 14. The first musical written, produced, and performed by African Americans, which debuted on Broadway in 1921.
Down
- 1. This writer became a leading voice of the African American experience and was known for his poetry.
- 3. Langston Hughes was famous for his poetry, which often captured the lives of the ___ American community.
- 5. Oscar DePriest was the first African American representative from this state.
- 6. This New York City neighborhood became the center of the Harlem Renaissance.
- 7. The famous Harlem nightclub where Duke Ellington performed.
- 10. This event in 1919 saw 1,300 African American veterans march through Manhattan to Harlem.
- 11. The first important writer of the Harlem Renaissance, author of "Harlem Shadows."
- 12. Music style that uses improvisation, popular in the 1920s.