Benjamin Brawley published The Negro in Literature and Art in the United States – 1919
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Harlem Renaissance
First Pan African Congress organized by W.EB. Du Bois, Paris, Febuary – 1919
Universal Negro Improvement Association (UNIA) Convention held at Madison Square Garden August – 1920
James Weldon Johnson appointed first black officer (Secretary) of NAACP – 1920
Benjamin Brawley published Social History of the American Negro – 1921
Marcus Garvey founded African Orthodox Church, September – 1921
First Anti-Lynching legislation approved by House of Representatives – 1922
Opportunity: A Journal of Negro Life is founded by the National Urban League, with Charles S. Johnson as its editor – 1923
Civic Club Dinner, sponsored by Opportunity, bringing black writers and white publishers together, March 21, this event was considered the formal launching of the New Negro Movement – 1924
Langston Hughes, Countee Cullen, and Zora Neale Hurston win literary awards at the first Crisis awards ceremony – 1925
American Negro Labor Congress held in Chicago, October – 1925
Savoy Ballroom opened in Harlem, March – 1926
Louis Armstrong in Chicago and Duke Ellington in New York begin their careers - 1927
Harlem Globetrotters established – 1927
Countee Cullen marries Nin Yolande, daughter of W.E.B Du Bois, April 9; described as the social event of the decade – 1928
Black Thursday, October 19, Stock Exchange crash - 1929
