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- 1. New York City nightclub from 1923 to 1940. It was located on 142nd Street and Lenox Avenue, then briefly in the midtown Theater District. The club operated during the United States' era of Prohibition and Jim Crow era racial segregation.
- 3. American composer, pianist, and leader of a jazz orchestra based in New York City from the mid-1920s and gained a national profile through his orchestra's appearances at the Cotton Club in Harlem
- 5. nicknamed "Satchmo", "Satch", and "Pops", was an American trumpeter and vocalist. He is among the most influential figures in jazz.
- 6. refers to the decade of the 1920s in Western society and Western culture.This period saw the large-scale development and use of automobiles, telephones, films,ETC
- 9. American photographer best known for his portraits of black New Yorkers. He was a leading figure in the Harlem Renaissance.
- 10. civil rights organization in the United States, formed in 1909 as an interracial endeavor to advance justice for African Americans
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- 2. Famous African-American Poet during the Harlem Renaissance,poem Ex:Mother to son
- 4. The largest movements of people in United states history six million Black people moved from the American South to Northern, Midwestern, and Western states roughly from the 1910s until the 1970s
- 7. neighborhood in Upper Manhattan, New York City. It is bounded roughly by the Hudson River,Long known for its intimate jazz clubs, soul food institutions and African-American heritage
- 8. black nationalist fraternal organization founded by Marcus Garvey, a Jamaican immigrant to the United States, and Amy Ashwood Garvey