Harlem Renaissance

These featured white actors in horribly racist black face makeup

• Cotton Club

• minstrel shows

• Apollo Theater

• Savoy Ballroom

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author of "Lift Every Voice and Sing"

• W.E.B. DuBois

• James Weldon Johnson

• Langston Hughes

• Countee Cullen

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jazz singer discovered at the Apollo

• Ella Fitzgerald

• Lena Horne

• A'Lelia Walker

• Marian Anderson

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dance floor was spring loaded and a city block long

• Cotton Club

• minstrel shows

• Savoy Ballroom

• Apollo Theater

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he made jazz music popular with all people

• W.E.B. DuBois

• Duke Ellington

• James Weldon Johnson

• Romare Bearden

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founder of the NAACP

• James Weldon Johnson

• Romare Bearden

• Duke Ellington

• W.E.B. DuBois

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successful poet who was educated at New York University and Harvard

• Romare Bearden

• Countee Cullen

• Langston Hughes

• W.E.B. DuBois

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first black woman to win a Grammy

• Ella Fitzgerald

• Lena Horne

• Marian Anderson

• A'Lelia Walker

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she ran the Dark Tower, which supported black artists

• Ella Fitzgerald

• Lena Horne

• Marian Anderson

• A'Lelia Walker

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was not allowed to sing at Constitution Hall

• Marian Anderson

• Lena Horne

• Ella Fitzgerald

• A'Lelia Walker

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