Lesson 17.5

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Across
  1. 1. The association that fought for integration and improvement of the political and economic position of African Americans.
  2. 4. The first important writer during the renaissance that had a poetry collection called "Harlem Shadows".
  3. 5. A soulful style of music that evolved from African American spirituals.
  4. 6. The Renaissance in which African American music, poetry, and pride spread during WW1.
  5. 8. A leader from Jamaica that founded the UNIA.
  6. 9. A musical style influenced by Dixieland and ragtime.
  7. 10. The Empress of Blues.
Down
  1. 2. Introduced an early form of jazz to Chicago in 1922.
  2. 3. The leading voice of the African American experience in America through his writing.
  3. 7. When hundreds of thousands of African Americans went from the rural south to northern industrial cities.