Harlem Renaissance crossword puzzle
Across
- 3. movement of 500,000 blacks to the north during ww1.
- 4. the poem was written by William Carlos Williamm and the poem implies the importance of agriculture and farm laborers.
- 7. He published his acclaimed debut volume of poetry, Color, in 1925, which would be followed by Copper Sun and The Ballad of the Brown Girl.
- 9. his best known book is the autobiography of an ex-colored man.
- 10. One of the earliest innovators of the literary art form called jazz poetry, Hughes is best known as a leader of the Harlem Renaissance.
Down
- 1. he made songs such as his trademark “Ol' Man River,” he became one of the most popular concert singers of his time.
- 2. development of the Harlem neighborhood in New York City as a Black cultural mecca in the early 20th Century and the subsequent social and artistic explosion that resulted.
- 5. he is considered the leading trumpeter and one of the most influential artists in jazz history, who helped develop jazz into a fine art.
- 6. The most popular of her four novels is Their Eyes Were Watching God, published in 1937.
- 8. this was Harlem's premier nightclub in the 1920s and 1930s during the Prohibition Era.