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Ragtime, which emerged in the 1890s , was composed music, written down for performance on the piano
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He was a skilled and creative composer of European harmonies and African American Rhythms.
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The beginning of the rebirth for black entertainment .
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Shuffle Along was created by Noble Sissle and Eubie Blake on Broadway with Florence Mills An Josephine Baker Link text
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He moved to Chicago in 1917 where he subsequently led and recorded with ¨Morton´s Red Hot Peppers¨.
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In 1922 Claude McKay wrote the poem "Harlem Shadows"
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Lagston Hughes published " The Negro Speaks of River
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Cane was written and published by Jane Toomer
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The cotton Club was opened and know known for its entertainment and the number one beer . The Cotton Club was run by a new york gangster Owney Madden . The Cotton Club also gave the black people who came up from the south some jobs and some black entertains the opportunity to get in the spot light such as Duke Ellington , Nicholas Brothers , Ethel Waters and many more
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Paul Robeson started in Eugene O'Neil's Drama " All God's Chillun Got Wings ". https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zEtMhIB9oIg
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Duke Ellington made his first appearance
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"i am a fugitive from a chain gang" was one of the first black movies during Jim Crow era
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Jackie Robinson's name started to get bigger in the negro baseball leagues
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Jackie Robinson was the first African american to play baseball in the major league
