Harlem Renaissance

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  1. 3. style of music wildly popular in the 1920s
  2. 6. the racist, violent hate organization trying to keep America racially “pure”
  3. 7. literary and artistic revival in NYC's African American community
  4. 9. considered the most important and influential musician in the history of jazz
  5. 11. in 1927 she became the highest- paid black artist in the world
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  1. 1. believed that African Americans should build a separate society (in Africa)
  2. 2. the largest black urban community in the United States in 1920s
  3. 4. a jazz pianist and composer, led his ten-piece orchestra at the famous Cotton Club and won renown as one of America’s greatest composers
  4. 5. Missouri-born poet best known during the Harlem Renaissance
  5. 8. group founded in 1909, to protect the rights of African Americans and to protest racial violence (initials)
  6. 10. hundreds of thousands of African Americans move north to big cities in the 1910s - 1920s