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1890
Between 1890 and 1920, about two million African Americans migrate from the southern states to the northern cities, where they hope to find better opportunities and less discrimination. -
Harry Pace founds the Black Swan Phonograph Corporation and begins production of the "race records" that will help to bring jazz and blues music to a wider audience.
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Marian Anderson performs at New York's Town Hall, launching her career as a classical singer.
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The National Urban League establishes Opportunity magazine, which will not only publish the work of Harlem Renaissance writers and artists.
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The New Negro anthology, edited by Alain Locke, introduces the work and ideas of the Harlem Renaissance.
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A daring new African American Journal(but short-lived) literary journal called Fire!! appears.
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Langston Hughes's first volume of poetry, The Weary Blues, is published.
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Wallace Thurman's play Harlem opens on Broadway, becoming the most successful production of its time by a black author.
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A number of Harlem Renaissance writers and artists find employment with the Works Project Administration, which was a government-sponsored program designed to put Americans back to work.
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Harlem is the scene of a major riot sparked by anger over discrimination by white-owned businesses.
