Across
2. Made "hi-de-hi-de-ho" famous
6. Wrote Cane, about getting in touch with his "Negro side"
7. He wrote sixteen books of poems, two novels, three collections of short stories, four volumes of "editorial"
    and "documentary" fiction, twenty plays, children's poetry, musicals and operas, three autobiographies,
    a dozen radio and television scripts and dozens of magazine articles
8. The first African-American to win a Best Actor Oscar
11. Opera singer
12. Wrote Their Eyes Were Watching God

Down
1. Famous singer/dancer in Shuffle Along
3. Used African subjects & designs in his paintings
4. Editor of The Crisis
5. A great jazz musician
9. The original swing dance
10. He started the Black Star Shipping Co.,boats to move blacks back to Africa.