Across
- 5. When African Americans began to build a new place for themselves in public life
- 8. known for his poetry and was a major leader of the Harlem Renaissance
- 9. American boxer who was the first African American to become heavyweight champion
- 10. renewed sense of racial pride, cultural self-expression, economic independence, and progressive politics
Down
- 1. most important black protest leader of NAACP during the 1920s
- 2. a movement of the 1920s during which African Americans developed a unique artistic style
- 3. Music that became popular in the 1920s, made with syncopated rhythms from African American culture
- 4. organization founded by Marcus Garvey, dedicated to racial pride and economic self-sufficiency
- 6. Popular dance created in the 1920s, (toes-in, heels-out twisting steps)
- 7. the most prominent artist-illustrator of the Harlem Renaissance
