History

3. seemed to symbolize soul.
8. Renaissance helped to instill a strong sense of pride, defiance, and confidence in African Americans
11. 1,300 African American veterans of World War I marched through
12. wrote some of the first major stories featuring African American women as central characters
13. Composer, pianist, and bandleader
15. was a prolific, original, and versatile writer

1. unfulfilled love, poverty, and oppression—the classic themes of the?
2. was the first African American representative in Congress from a Northern state.
4. received wide acclaim for his performance in the title role of Eugene O’Neill’s Emperor Jones.
5. most famous nightclub in Harlem
6. from the rural South to industrial cities in the North
7. musical style influenced by Dixieland and ragtime, with syncopated rhythms and improvisational elements.
9. first important writer of the Harlem Renaissance
10. battled hard against segregation and discrimination against African Americans
14. A dynamic leader from Jamaica
16. Garvey founded