Harlem Renaissance

HARLEM RENAISSANCE

Period: Aug 3, 1900 to Oct 18, 1935

Harlem Renaissance is a period from the end of WW I.A group of talented African American artisans produced a large body of work and a movement to raise racial consciousness.

1890-1920 Migration

Oct 18, 1900

Migration of 2 million Southern Blacks to north for work
Slavery was not far from the minds in the country•

Attitude in South was oppressive and violent• Scottsboro Nine" trial

Migration

Jun 1, 1905

In Harlem

Jun 3, 1910

Harlem

Nov 17, 1911

Artist Romare Bearden

Harlem's Legecy

Jul 16, 1917

Contributors

Apr 28, 1918

Harlem Renaissance

Oct 18, 1919

1st Congress

Nov 21, 1919

1919 •First Pan African Congress organized by W.E.B. Du Bois, Paris,
•Marcus Garvey founded the Black Star Shipping Line.

Organization

Mar 1, 1920

•Universal Negro Improvement Association (UNIA) •Charles Gilpin starred in Eugene O'Neill, The Emperor Jones, •James Weldon Johnson, secretary of NAACP appointed. •Claude McKay published Spring in New Hampshire. •Du Bois's Darkwater is published• Woman have the right to vote

First Musical

Jun 18, 1921

Shuffle Along the first musical revue written and performed by African Americans •Marcus Garvey founded African Orthodox Church•Second Pan African Congress. •Colored Players Guild of New York founded. •Benjamin Brawley published Social History of the American Negro.

Cotton Club

Aug 2, 1923

The Cotton Club opened, Fall. •Third Pan African Congress. •Publications of Jean Toomer GarveyPhilosophy and Opinion

New Negro Movement.

Mar 4, 1924

•Civic Club Dinner, bringing black writers and white publishers together. This event is considered the formal launching of the New Negro movement. •Paul Robeson starred in O'Neill's All God's Chillun Got Wings•Countee Cullen won first prize in Poetry Competition. •Large selection of Publications by Du Bois,

H. R Writers

Oct 18, 1925

• Survey Graphic issue, "Harlem: Mecca of the New Negro," • Publications: Cullen, Color;

Du Bose Heyward, Porgy; The Book of American Negro Spirituals; Alain Locke, The New Negro; Sherwood Anderson, Dark Laughter• Leader of artists and writers –Wallace Thurman

Savoy Opening

Nov 22, 1926

•Savoy Ballroom opened in Harlem

Music and Sports

Oct 18, 1927

Louie Armstrong•Louis Armstrong in Chicago and Duke Ellington in New York •Harlem Globetrotters established.

Theater

Oct 18, 1929

Wallace Thurman's play Harlem opens at the Apollo Theater on Broadway •Black Thursday, October 29, Stock Exchange crash. •Publications: Cullen, The Black Christ and Other Poems;Claude McKay, Banjo; Nella Larsen, Passing;

Harlem Renaissance Artists

Jan 30, 1932

Harlem Renaissance Arists - List

Music

Apr 20, 1933

Ella

Music by Billy

Sep 21, 1934

Billy Holiday

Broadway

Dec 29, 1935

SummertimeApolla Theater Opened 1934•Harlem Race Riot, •Porgy and Bess, with an all-black cast, opens on Broadway •Mulatto by Langston Hughes, first full-length play by a black writer,