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