Across
- 4. a poem by Walt Whitman about singing.
- 7. an African American journalist, suffragist, sociologist, and early leader in the Civil Rights Movement
- 11. written by paul laurence dunbar, cage bird
- 13. escape and subsequently made some 13 missions to rescue approximately 70 enslaved people.
- 14. born a slave in 1856, was nine years old when slavery ended. The principal of the Tuskegee Institute in Alabama.
- 17. One of the most powerful voices in the anti-slavery movement in the 19th century. Spent much of his early years in slavery, was able to escape north.
- 18. that grins and lies, It hides our cheeks and shades our eyes
- 19. Born in Dayton, Ohio, to parents who had been enslaved in Kentucky before the American Civil War, began writing stories and verse when he was a child
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- 1. an American poet, social activist, novelist, playwright, and columnist from Joplin, Missouri. One of the earliest innovators of the literary art form called jazz poetry.
- 2. Aka Lady Day is one of the greatest jazz singers of all time, sing strange fruit.
- 3. a music genre that originated in the African-American communities of New Orleans, Louisiana, United States, in the late 19th and early 20th centuries
- 5. the stage of the Atlantic slave trade in which millions of enslaved Africans were forcibly transported to the Americas as part of the triangular slave trade.
- 6. first published African-American woman poet.
- 8. a song written and composed by Abel Meeropol and recorded by Billie Holiday in 1939.
- 9. Summer of 1919.
- 10. leader of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP)
- 12. an extrajudicial killing by a groupIf ifwemustdie ___________, let it not be like hogs Hunted and penned in an inglorious spot
- 15. African American music, dance, art, fashion, literature, theater and politics centered in Harlem, Manhattan, New York City, spanning the 1920s and 1930s.
- 16. Founding member of NAACP