Across
- 6. This drummer became the bandleader at the Savoy Ballroom by age 20.
- 7. This actor received death threats to star in Eugene O'Neill's "All God's Chillun Got Wings' which featured an interracial romance
- 10. This painter was commissoned by the WPA to paint "Aspects of Negro Life", a four-panel mural for the 135th Street Branch of the New York Public Library.
- 11. This musician wrote the first jazz composition in the form of a concerto and invented his own harmonic language.
- 12. He became the assistant editor of Opportunity Magazine where he wrote his own column entitled "The Dark Tower"
- 14. This famous sculptor became first director of Harlem's Community Arts Center.
- 15. This actress starred in "Within Our Gates (1920)" which told the story of a woman who survives an attempted assault by a white man who is actually her biological father.
Down
- 1. This actor made his Broadway debut in 1919 playing the role of the preacher and former slave Custis in John Drinkwater's "Abraham Lincoln"
- 2. Her 1937 novel "Their Eyes Were Watching god" describes an independent black woman's search for independnece.
- 3. He produced the first African-American feature film in 1919, "The Homesteader"
- 4. Known as the "King of Savoy" this dancer was formed his own dance troupe that performed across Harlem
- 5. This singers first release, "Down-Hearted Blues," sold more than 750,000 copies in one month.
- 8. This triple threat got her big break as the lead in the hit musical "Shuffle Along"
- 9. He was known as "Poet Laureate of Harlem"
- 13. He was nick named the "Human Boa Constrictor," and invented a dance called the "Snakehips" in the early 1930s.