Influential Black Figures of the 1920s

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  1. 6. In 1921, he broke barriers as the first African American elected to New Jersey's State Assembly
  2. 8. First African American elected to Congress post-Reconstruction, representing Chicago.
  3. 9. Harlem Renaissance poet who asked, "What is Africa to me?" in "Heritage"
  4. 10. Co-author of the "Negro National Anthem," this NAACP leader was also a poet
Down
  1. 1. Jazz legend nicknamed "Satchmo," famed for his trumpet and gravelly voice
  2. 2. Known as the "Father of African American History," he created Negro History Week
  3. 3. Rhodes Scholar who celebrated the Harlem Renaissance in The New Negro
  4. 4. Jamaican-born poet who declared, "If we must die, let it not be like hogs."
  5. 5. Anthropologist and author who brought black American folklore to life in Their Eyes Were Watching God
  6. 7. Harlem's Cotton Club star whose orchestra defined the jazz age