Harlem Renaissance

By naterussell

  • Freed slaves move past slavery

    Former slaves began moving out of the south and into the more prosperous north.

  • Harlem becomes a final destination

    Harlem, in New York, had been established by wealthy white citizens. As former slaves and moved north, they settled into this neighborhood.

  • NAACP is formed

    NAACP stands for National Association for the Advancement of Colored People. The association led the black civil rights struggle in fighting injustices such as the denial of voting rights, racial violence, discrimination in employment, and segregated public facilities.

  • Madame Walker moved to Harlem

    Madame Walker was an affluent black women who made millions of dollars after creating a hair product for black woman when she moved to Harlem in 1916.

  • Protest for equal rights

    African Americans had many protest and riots at this time. After riots in St. Louis killed hundreds of blacks, a silent protest was held in New York.

  • Marcus Garvey

    Marcus Garvey was a leader for the Black Nationalism and Pan-Africanism movements, he founded the Universal Negro Improvement Association and African Communities League. Garvey advanced a Pan-African philosophy which inspired a global mass movement, known as Garveyism.

  • The American Negro

    African Americans became creating their own literature. A writer named Benjamin Brawley wrote and published a work called The Negro in Art and Literature in the United States. Civic Club Dinner launches the New Negro, which was an organized dinner where black writers were brought together with white publishers.

  • An African American wins the Pulitzer Prize

    Paul Green wrote a work called In Abraham's Bosom. It won a Pulitzer Prize.

  • Jazz music

    William Grant Still, the most prominent African-American art music composer of the time he was influenced by the concept of the "New Negro," a theme frequently included in his works. Duke Ellington, a renowned jazz artist, began to reflect the "New Negro" in his music as well.

  • The Great Depression hits

    In in 1929 the stock market crashed, starting the great depression.

  • The fight against segregation

    Members of the NAACP and the American Fund for Public Service met to discuss ways to end segregation, or the separation of blacks and whites.

  • The last novel of the Harlem Renaissance

    African American author Zora Hurston published the novel Their Eyes Were Watching God. It was considered the last novel of the Harlem Renaissance.