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The National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) was founded. Which led black people to be more creative.
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The Harlem Renaissance began in the the 1920's . At the time it was know as the "New Negro Movement." The Movement also included the new African-American cultural expressions across the urban areas in the Northeast and Midwest United States affected by the Great Migration.
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Harlem Stride Piano, stride piano, commonly abbreviated to stride, is a jazz piano style that was developed in the large cities of the East Coast, mainly New York, during the 1920's
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Fats Waller, Duke Ellington, Jelly Roll Morton, and Willie "The Lion" Smith were very talented Afican-American musicians, considered to have laid the foundation for future musicians.
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During this period, the musical style of blacks was becoming more and more attractive to whites. African-Americans were having a purpose in Amerian culture.
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Harlem's Savoy BallroomThe Savoy Ballroom in Harlem opens. It could hold up to 4,000 people in it. Where people went to go dance and listen to jazz music.
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The first musical revue written and performed by African-Americans, Shuffle Along, by Noble Sissle and Eubie Blake opens on May 22 at the David Belasco Theater on Broadway. African Americans are finally being accpeted into the American culturl.
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James V. Herring founds the Howard University Gallery of Art. James Vernon Herring was an African-American artist and professor of art at Howard University. White people are starting to notice black art.
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The new musical form known as jazz is showcased at Aeolian Hall in New York in the “First American Jazz Concert”. Jazz is now a natioal music genre.
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The Negro Art theatre is founded in June. This was a place where black poeple can go lo=earn how to act.
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Marc Connelly’s The Green Pastures opens on Broadway on February 26, with an all-black cast. People are starting to find black art entertaining.
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Artist Augusta Savage opens the Savage School of Arts and Crafts in Harlem
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Vernon Loggins’ The Negro Author: His Development in America to 1900 is published. This book is about how Vernon Loggin feels about how black people changed America.
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Langston Hughes publishes The Dream Keeper. Langston Hughe was a very successful aurthor during this time period.
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The depression hit the African-American segment of the population hard; layoffs and housing foreclosures shut many blacks out of the American Dream.
