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