Harlem Renaissance

2. A dynamic leader from Jamaica who founded the Universal Negro Improvement Association
4. Zora Neale Hurston wrote stories about African American women as central characters, contributing to this.
8. This city became a center for jazz in Europe after World War I.
9. This organization worked to end segregation and discrimination against African Americans
13. This Harlem-based cultural movement emphasized racial pride and artistic expression.
14. The first musical written, produced, and performed by African Americans, which debuted on Broadway in 1921.

1. This writer became a leading voice of the African American experience and was known for his poetry.
3. Langston Hughes was famous for his poetry, which often captured the lives of the ___ American community.
5. Oscar DePriest was the first African American representative from this state.
6. This New York City neighborhood became the center of the Harlem Renaissance.
7. The famous Harlem nightclub where Duke Ellington performed.
10. This event in 1919 saw 1,300 African American veterans march through Manhattan to Harlem.
11. The first important writer of the Harlem Renaissance, author of "Harlem Shadows."
12. Music style that uses improvisation, popular in the 1920s.