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The 13th amendment was put into place. From this point on Slavery is illegal
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Between 1890 and 1920, about two million African Americans migrate from the rural southern states to the northern cities, where they hope to find better opportunities and less discrimination.
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Jamaican-born Marcus Garvey arrives in Harlem and founds the United Negro Improvement Association, an organization that urges blacks to unite and form their own nation.
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Two of Claude McKay's poems are published in the white literary journal Seven Arts.
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Jessie Redmon Fauset becomes literary editor of Crisis.
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Harry Pace founds the Black Swan Phonograph Corporation and begins production of the "race records" that will help to bring jazz and blues music to a wider audience.
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The first major book of the Harlem Renaissance appears when Claude McKay's novel Harlem Shadows is published by Harcourt, Brace.
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The stock market crashes, setting off the economic downturn known as the Great Depression.
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Artist August Savage opens the Savage School of Arts and Crafts in Harlem.
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Harlem is the scene of a major riot sparked by anger over discrimination by white-owned businesses.
