African-American and the Harlem Renaissance

By kyleevans
  • Period: to

    The Roaring Twenties

  • Marcus Garvey founds the african orthodox church

  • Cotton Club

    Cotton Club were musical revues that featured dancers, singers, comedians, and variety acts, as well as a house band. Duke Ellington led that band from 1927 to 1930

  • Josephine Baker appears on Broadway in Chocolate Dandies

  • Zara Neale Hurtson publishes her first short story in Opportunity: A Journal of negro life

  • Marcus Garvey is convicted of mail fraud

    imprisoned in the Atlanta penitentiary

  • Marcus Garvey returns to Jamaica after being deported

  • Stock Market crash