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6 Cards in this Set
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Marcus Garvey
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The most prominent new African American leader to emerge in the 1920's
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Jazz
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Musical form based on improvisation
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Louis Armstrong
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Became the unofficial ambassador of the Jazz after playing with King Oliver's band in New Orleans in Chicago and with Fletcher Henderson's orchestra in New York
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Claude McKay
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Showed ordinary African Americans struggling for dignity and advancement in the face of discrimination and economic hardships
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Langston Hughes
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The most powerful African American literary voice of his time
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Zora Neale Hurston
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Traveled the rural back roads of her native Florida collecting folk tales and books such as mules and men
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