The Harlem Renaissance

By marley

  • Africa

    Many blacks return to Africa between 1890 - 1920

  • NAACP

    The NAACP is founded

  • March

    Many thounsands of blacks march in silence to protest violence against their race.

  • Harlem shadows

    Claude McKay writes the first major book of the harlem renaissance, called Harlem Shadows

  • the cotton club

    a famous cabernet in harlem opens, called the cotton club

  • the fire in the flint

    NAACP leader walter white publishes his book, the fire in the flint.

  • color

    countee cullens first poetry book, called "color", is published

  • The Weary Blues

    Langston Hughes publishes his first poetry book, called "the weary blues"

  • Marcus Garvey

    Marcus Garvey is ordered to return to jamaica after multiple improsonments for mail fraud

  • Great Depression

    The stock market crashes, and sets off the great depression