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_____________ was the first important writer of the Harlem Renaissance.

• Claude McKay

• Zora Neale Hurston

• Bessie Smith

• W.E.B. Du Bois

____________ earned the title "Empress of the Blues"

• Zora Neale Hurston

• Bessie Smith

• Claude McKay

• "Duke" Ellington

The first musical written, produced, and performed by African Americans was ____________.

• Rent

• Cats

• Shuffle Along

• Uncle Tom's Cabin

The site of a flowering of African American arts was ________________

• Chicago

• Las Angeles

• Miami

• Harlem

________________ was an author whose work featured African American women as central characters

• Zora Neale Hurston

• Louis Armstrong

• Bessie Smith

• W.E.B. Du Bois

What style of music was influenced by Dixieland and ragtime?

• Classical

• Country

• Jazz

• Soul

Claude McKay’s poetry expressed two striking characteristics of Harlem Renaissance writing—a proud defiance and a bitter contempt of

• Anarchists

• Communists

• Nationalism

• Racism

The flowering of African American arts in the 1920s became known as the

• Glory Days

• Great Awakening

• Great Migration

• Harlem Renaissance

The Cotton Club was a

• Chicago speakeasy where gangsters, artists, and politicians congregated

• Fictitious nightclub featured in the famous picture The Jazz Singer

• Harlem nightspot where many African American entertainers got their start

• Hollywood nightspot frequented by the stars of the silver screen

The Universal Negro Improvement Association was formed to

• Elect African Americans to Congress

• Promote black pride and unity

• Promote integration

• Protest the horrors of lynching