Contemporary America

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Clues

• The flowering of African-American Arts in a 1920's New York neighborhood (3 words)
• The 1957 play showing the American dream from the perspective of excluded African-Americans-5 words
• The 1964 act that outlawed segregation and guaranteed equal rights for African-Americans (3 words)
• A new vision of this idea emerged in the 1950's by having nice homes and consumer go
• This event happened when Japan attacked the U.S. on 12-7-1941, causing the U.S. to enter WWII-2 wds.
• One of the consumer goods seen as a symbol of success in the 1950's
• Martin Luther King Jr. promoted ___ civil disobedience to protest segregation
• Female member of young Harlem Renaissance Zora Neale ___
• Non-physical war where the U.S. & Soviet Union threatened each other with nuclear annhilation
• The vibrant New York neighborhood where creative African-Americans migrated from 1916-1920's
• In 1954 ___ vs. Board of Education outlawed segregation in schools
• In 1963, 200,000 activists merged for this event, demanding civil rights legislation (3 words)
• The famous civil rights activist who promoted nonviolent protest against
• From 1916-1920's millions of black farmers migrated to urban North during the ___ (2 words)
• Policy in public places, including school, which separated black and white people up until 1964
• Author Lorraine ___ wrote the play A Raisin in the Sun.
• A booming economy & material purchases in the 1950's, caused America to be called a ___ society.
• One of the material symbols of success in the 1950's was a ___ machine for your home.
• Prominent poet of the young Harlem Renaissance generation, Langston ___
• Prominent writer of the young Harlem Renaissance generation, Countee ___

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