The Harlem Renaissance

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  1. 3. Founder of the UNIA, and lead a movement calling for the return of African Americans to their homeland.
  2. 4. An artist for magazines, he depicted the struggles of African Americans in the Harlem Renaissance through his art.
  3. 7. The years in which the Harlem Renaissance took place.
  4. 11. First black woman to become a world-famous singer, became popular after the Broadway musical comedy "Shuffle Along".
  5. 13. Editor of “The New Movement”, a philosopher whose influence on the Harlem Renaissance rivaled Du-Bois.
  6. 15. Abbreviation of the city where the neighborhood the Harlem Renaissance took place was in.
  7. 17. The initial name of the Harlem Renaissance.
  8. 18. He is an actor, singer, writer, activist and more. while studying law at Columbia University he was considered an inspirational but approachable figure.
  9. 20. One of the most famous black female writers from the Harlem Renaissaince. Her writing revealed what life was like in the South for an African American woman.
  10. 21. Philosophical doctrine that pronounced more primitive people were nobler than sophisticated ones. Was a major instrument in the rise of the Harlem Renaissance.
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  1. 1. Harlem was originally a colony of what nation.
  2. 2. The event that took place before the Harlem Renaissance, caused the Harlem Renaissance to take place. Migration of African Americans to the North from the South due to the discriminatory laws of the South.
  3. 5. Invented by Adolphe Sax, the only woodwind instrument never made of wood.
  4. 6. The most famous orchestral unit in the history of jazz, and one of its earliest artists.
  5. 8. The village of Harlem was founded in what year.
  6. 9. Jamaican immigrant who first wrote his poems in his native language, then changed to writing English. Best known for his work “If We Must Die”, a militant sonnet supporting African American revolutionaries.
  7. 10. One of the most famous jazz trumpetists and vocalists of the Harlem Renaissance.
  8. 12. The man who wrote "When Harlem was in Vogue", is one of the most famous Harlem Renaissance figures.
  9. 14. The main cause of the end of the Harlem Renaissaince.
  10. 16. Harlem's premier nightclub in the 1920s and 1930s designed to tailor to white people who wanted to experience African American culture without having to interact with African American people.
  11. 19. One of the foremost African American thinkers of the Harlem Renaissance, and the editor of NAACP's weekly journal "The Crisis".