1920s Vocabulary

3. Poet, He wrote about the pain of prejudice. He urged African Americans to resist discrimination.
8. Religious movement based on the belief that everything written in the Bible was literally true
9. The era that prohibited the manufacture and sale of alcoholic beverages
10. Blues singer
11. He was an African American leader who promoted black pride and black nationalism
13. the 1920s, he wrote about the daily lives of working-class blacks.
14. Trial of John Scopes for teaching evolution
17. African-American artistic movement
18. was the most famous female writer of the Harlem Renaissance.
19. Smugglers who brought alcohol in from Canada and the Caribbean

1. He was a jazz pianist and one of the nation's greatest composers.
2. Poet and civil rights leader
4. Hidden saloons and nightclubs that illegally sold liquor
5. One of the most famous Harlem Renaissance
6. Set of principles granting one group more freedom than another group
7. The most important and influential jazz musician
12. Young woman who embraced the new fashions and values of the 1920s
15. He was the most famous trial lawyer of the day. Hired by the ACLU to defend John T. Scopes
16. Actor, singer, and civil-rights leader