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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 fictional telling of the story of a young biracial man, referred to only as the “Ex-Colored Man", living in post Reconstruction era America in the late nineteenth and early twentieth century.
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the largest mass movement in African-American history.
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became head of the NAACP
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Anti-LynchingThe new legislation was passed by the House of Representatives.
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An Interpretation is an anthology of fiction, poetry, and essays on African and African-American art.
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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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Harlem is the scene of a major riot sparked by discrimination by white-owned businesses.
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he recounts those memorable years in the two great playgrounds of the decade--Harlem and Paris
