Week 8 - Harlem Renaissance

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Across
  1. 2. One of the biggest and most important African American neighborhoods that was located in NCY
  2. 5. This man illustrated for two important magazines during the Harlem Renaissance movement, and his paintings often portrayed important themes regarding African Americans and their lives
  3. 7. The woman that founded the National Council of Negro Women in 1935
  4. 9. Louis Armstrong's nickname
  5. 10. A talented performer in the Harlem Renaissance who became a popular and highly paid performer in Europe
  6. 13. one of the most well-known and influential writers of the Harlem Renaissance
Down
  1. 1. When six million African Americans left the rural South between 1916 and 1970
  2. 3. city in Louisiana that jazz originated in
  3. 4. states and local governments began to pass a series of statues that legalized racial segregation, marginalized African Americans, and denied them any hope of equality
  4. 6. an organization that has been defending the rights of African Americans for over 100 years
  5. 8. The period of time known as the ___ ____ was a golden age for social and artistic expression that began in African American communities
  6. 11. nickname for young women who flocked to nightclubs to dance to the beat
  7. 12. Zora Neale ___ was sometimes called the "Queen of the Renaissance"