1. Publisher of the “Memphis Blues”.

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2. First woman to perform W. C. Handy’s “St. Louis Blues” in 1971, at the White House.

3. Melodic meter and rhyme poet, who was one of the strongest voices of the Harlem Renaissance.

4. Kerry James Marshall’s potrait which depicts Chicago Stateway Gardens.

5. This Ebony magazine photographer won a Pulitzer Prize for his photograph of MLK Jr’s “Widow and child” taken at the funeral.

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6. This Harlem Renaissance artist was the first black elected to a full membership in the National Academy of Design.

7. African American Playwright who wrote “Twilight,” 1992.

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8. African American female painter whose painting, “Les Fetiches”, is hanging in the National Museum of American Art.

9. First African American woman to win a Pulitzer Prize for “Topdog/Underdog”.

10. This Harlem Renaissance writer wrote the autobiography “ I Wonder as I Wander”.

11. African American playwright, “Fences” Pulitzer Prize winner and Co-founder and Director of Black Horizons Theatre in Pittsburgh.

12. This Harlem Renaissance singer replaced Bessie Smith in the musical comedy “How Come,” in 1923.