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26 Cards in this Set
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Anna Bontemps
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Crisis Poetry prize
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Alain Locke
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Dramatist, playwright, Anna Charlotte
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Bessie Smith
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"Empress of Blues" Right arm amputated
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Billie Holliday
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"Lady day" never learned how to read music
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Cab Calloway
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Cabell. Conductor. Mannie the moocher
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Charlie Parker
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Yardbird
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Claude Mckay
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Preffered Europe to USA
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Countee Cullen
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Any human to another
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Dorothy West
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"The Kid" Livin is easy
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Duke Ellington
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Song write, "Ex colored man"
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Eubie Blake
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"Bandana days"
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Eugene Oneil
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Anna Charlotte
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James Vanderzee
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Son of Ulysses S
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Jean Toomer
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"Pinchback"
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Jelly Roll Morton
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Ferdinand Joseph, Jelly Roll Blues
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Jessie Faust
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Wrote 20 novels. There is confusion
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Josephine Baker
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Freda, Siren
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Langston Hughes
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"negro speaks of rivers"
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Louis Armstrong
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Sachmo and Pops
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Marcus Gravey
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Moziah. Founded UNIA
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Noble Sissie
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"Shuffle Along"
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Paul Dunbar
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Lyrics of a lowly life
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Paul Robesonn
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Actor, athlete, civil rights activist
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Wallace Thurman
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The Blacker the Berry
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Web DuBois
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William Edward Civil rights activist, educator, writer
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Zora Neil Hurston
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Their eyes were watching god
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