The Harlem Renaissance

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Across
  1. 2. When the Harlem Renaissance started
  2. 4. Nightspot in Harlem
  3. 5. "Father of the Harlem Renaissance"
  4. 6. A music genre that was used regularly during this era
  5. 8. one of the founding fathers of jazz
  6. 10. Play writer and filmmaker, friends with Langston Hughes
  7. 11. What colored people had to go through everyday
  8. 13. "Empress of the Blues"
  9. 14. Where the black literature, art, music, and creativity was centered
  10. 15. Poet and writer, wrote the poem "Harlem"
  11. 18. First black woman millionaire in America
  12. 19. Jamiacan-born writer, "If We Must Die"
Down
  1. 1. Was a leader of the NAACP
  2. 3. Urged his readers that "Beauty is Black"
  3. 7. Black southerners came to the north to live better lives
  4. 9. "Mother of the Blues"
  5. 12. American-born French entertainer
  6. 16. Song sung by Billie Holiday, talks about lynching
  7. 17. Jamaican-born activist