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1919
369th Regiment marched up Fifth Avenue to Harlem, February 17 -
1919
Race riots in Washington, D.C., Chicago, Charleston, Knoxville, Omaha, and elsewhere, June to September. -
1920
Universal Negro Improvement Association (UNIA) Convention held at Madison Square Garden, August -
1920
Charles Gilpin starred in Eugene O'Neill, The Emperor Jones, November. -
1921
Shuffle Along by Noble Sissle and Eubie Blake, the first musical revue written and performed by African Americans (cast members include Josephine Baker and Florence Mills), opened, May 22, at Broadway's David Belasco Theater. -
1921
Marcus Garvey founded African Orthodox Church, September. -
1922
Publications of The Book of American Negro Poetry edited by James Weldon Johnson; -
1922
First Anti-Lynching legislation approved by House of Representatives -
1923
National Ethiopian Art Players staged The Chip Woman's Fortune by Willis Richardson, first serious play by a black writer on Broadway, May. -
1923
Claude McKay spoke at the Fourth Congress of the Third International in Moscow, June.