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369th Regiment marched up Fifth Avenue to Harlem, February 17
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Race riots in Washington, D.C., Chicago, Charleston, Knoxville, Omaha, and elsewhere, June to September.
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Universal Negro Improvement Association (UNIA) Convention held at Madison Square Garden, August
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Charles Gilpin starred in Eugene O'Neill, The Emperor Jones, November.
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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.
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Marcus Garvey founded African Orthodox Church, September.
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Publications of The Book of American Negro Poetry edited by James Weldon Johnson;
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First Anti-Lynching legislation approved by House of Representatives
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National Ethiopian Art Players staged The Chip Woman's Fortune by Willis Richardson, first serious play by a black writer on Broadway, May.
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Claude McKay spoke at the Fourth Congress of the Third International in Moscow, June.