Harlem Rennaisance

By bender17

  • NAACP Is Founded

    1910
    The National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) is founded, and prominent black leader W.E.B. Du Bois becomes editor of the group's monthly magazine, Crisis.

  • Black Protest

    1917
    Between 10,000 and 15,000 African Americans join the Silent Protest Parade, marching down Fifth Avenue in complete silence to protest violence against blacks.

  • Head of NAACP

    1920
    James Weldon Johnson becomes the head of the NAACP.

  • Literature

    1922
    The first major book of the Harlem Renaissance appears when Claude McKay's novel Harlem Shadows is published by Harcourt, Brace.

  • Music

    1923
    Louis Armstrong joins Fletcher Henderson's orchestra, which—performing at the famed Roseland Ballroom—becomes the most popular dance band in New York.

  • Art

    1925
    Artist Sargent Johnson exhibits his paintings at the San Francisco Art Association, and Archibald Motley wins a medal from the Art Institute of Chicago for his painting "A Mulatress."

  • Black Scholarship

    1925
    Zora Neale Hurston enters Barnard College on a scholarship, studying anthropology.

  • NAACP

    1926
    The NAACP-sponsored theatrical group the Krigwa Players stages three plays.

  • Broadway

    1927
    Porgy, a musical play with black characters and themes, opens on Broadway.

  • Sponsors

    1929
    The Harmon Foundation sponsors an exhibition of black artists at the National Gallery in Washington, D.C.