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National Association of the Advancement of Colored People is founded and W.E.B. Du Bois becomes editor of their monthly magazine.
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the group founded the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP), to promote civil rights and fight African-American disenfranchisement
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AutobiographyJames Weldon Johnson's very influential novel Autobiography of an Ex-Colored Man was published.
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The 369th Infantry returns home from World War 1, hightly decorated and of all African American soldiers. They returned to a Hero's welcome in Harlem.
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The “Red Summer of Hate;” race riots break out in Chicago, Washington, D.C. and over twenty other American cities, June to September
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JamesJames Weldon Johnson becomes head of the NAACP
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shuffle alongThe first musicle revue was performed by African American's in New York called, Shuffle Along.
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The Black Swan Phonograph Corporation is founded by Harry Pace; they produce “race records” which helped bring jazz to a larger audience, especially recordings of Mamie and Bessie Smith
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anti lynchingThe new legislation was passed by the House of Representatives.
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jazzThe new musical form known as jazz is showcased at Aeolian Hall in New York in the “First American Jazz Concert”
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The Harmon Foundation holds its first annual art exhibition for African American artwork. Palmer Hayden and Hale Woodruff won top awards.
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langstonHughes cast off the influences of white poets and wrote with the rhythmic meter of blues and jazz.
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Countee Cullen and Yolande Du Bois married and had an extravagant wedding that is one of the most memorable social events of the Harlem Renaissance
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Harlem by Wallace Thurman opens on Broadway becoming the most successful production of the time by a black author.
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riot in harlemHarlem is the scene of a major riot sparked by discrimination by white-owned businesses.
