Harlem Renaissance

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Across
  1. 2. Jazz musician from New Orleans combined African rhythms, blues, and ragtime
  2. 3. founded the Universal Negro Improvement Association
  3. 5. largest African American urban community
  4. 7. a jazz pianist and composer, led his ten-piece orchestra at the famous Cotton Club
  5. 8. hundreds of thousands of African Americans move north to big cities
Down
  1. 1. often wrote about the lives of poor, unschooled Southern blacks
  2. 4. blues singer, was perhaps the most outstanding vocalist of the decade
  3. 6. was one of the leading writers of the Harlem Renaissance. He published his first book of poetry when he was 24 years old