Harlem Renaissance

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Across
  1. 2. a African-American blues singer widely renowned during the Jazz Age. Nicknamed the "Empress of the Blues" and formerly Queen of the Blues,
  2. 5. a war that included many different empires, continents ans countries. It saw important developments in weaponry including tanks, aircraft, artillery, machine guns, and chemical weapons.
  3. 7. The movement of five million African Americans out of the rural Southern United States to the urban Northeast, Midwest, and West between 1910 and 1970.
  4. 8. refers to the 1920s decade in music and fashion, as it happened in Western society and Western culture. It was a period of economic prosperity
Down
  1. 1. state and local statutes enforcing racial segregation and discrimination against African Americans in the Southern United States from the late 19th to the mid-20th centuries.
  2. 3. a music genre that originated in the African-American communities of New Orleans, Louisiana, in the late 19th and early 20th centuries.
  3. 4. an American poet, social activist, novelist, playwright, and columnist from Joplin, Missouri. An early innovator of jazz poetry.
  4. 6. the nation's largest, oldest, and most influential grassroots civil rights organization, founded in 1909 to secure political, educational, social, and economic equality for Black people.