Literature and Poetry in the Harlem Renaissance

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Across
  1. 3. A black woman who longs to be white
  2. 7. black cultural mecca staring in the 1910's
  3. 9. a slave revolt in Virginia
  4. 12. Primary influence along with Carl Sandburg
  5. 13. Wallace Truman was uncertain about the impacts of the ______
  6. 15. Helped the African American Community by showing the raw perspective of their life and history.
  7. 17. Who wrote a melodrama of Negro Life in Harlem?
  8. 18. School Principal
  9. 19. her writings were deemed "too black" and her main theme was ______
  10. 20. The Golden Age manifests in ______
Down
  1. 1. Used his mother as motivation for his studies
  2. 2. first African-American woman to receive a Guggenheim Fellowship.
  3. 4. one of the earliest innovators of the literary art form called jazz poetry.
  4. 5. rejects the traditional American standards of writing
  5. 6. The time and place that a poem or novel takes place
  6. 8. What place ties all of these writers together?
  7. 10. Worked at a school in Durham
  8. 11. Langston Hughes can also be considered an ________
  9. 14. Used his love for British poetry to influence his writing
  10. 16. uplifted the culture of African Americans during the Harlem Renaissance