The Harlem Renaissance

By hmetkowski
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    The Harlem Renaissance

  • NAACP

    In 1910, the National Association for the Advancedment of Colored People began. It was the first step and beginning the the Harlem Renaissance. Soon after the NAACP was founded, popular African American author W.E.B. Du Bois became the editor of a magazine called The Crisis.
  • The Red Summer of Hate

    The Red Summer of Hate

    In 1919, "The Red Summer of Hate" occurs, and African Americans are furious over lynchings and other acts of violence towards them.
  • Langston Hughes

    Langston Hughes

    The Crisis prints Langston Hughes' poem, "The Negro Speaks of Rivers".

  • Dance Band

    Fletcher Henderson's orchestra is joined by Louis Armstrong and becomes the most famous dance band in New York
  • Countee Cullen

    Countee Cullen

    Countee Cullens first volume "Color" is printed.

  • Carl Van Vechten

    "Nigger Heaven" is written and published by Carl Van Vechten
  • The play "Harlem"

    The play "Harlem"

    Wallace Thurman's play Harlem is debuted on Broadway and is the most popular play written by an African Americans.
  • Mural

    Mural

    Aaron Douglas is asked to paint a mural on 135th street showing the Aspects of Negro Life.

  • Wallace Thurman's death

    Wallace Thurman dies in the charity ward of the hospital. Harlem sobers quickly.
  • Riot

    Riot

    Harlem errupts in violence and anger as African Americans fight discrimination by caucasion american buisiness owners.