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1903
W.E.B Du Bois's The souls of black folk, published- Start point of Harlem Reniassance -
1917
Two of claude mckays peoms are published in the white Literary Journal Seven Arts -
1921
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, launching careers of Josephine Baker and Florence Mills -
1921
Langston Hughes Poem "the negro speaks of rivers" is publishe in Crisis. -
1923
Jessie Redmon Fauset’s There is Confusion is published; this is the first Harlem Renaissance book by a female writer
Aaron Douglas arrives in New York; his art style becomes the official one of the Harlem Renaissance -
1924
Louis Armstrong joins Fletcher Henderson’s orchestra, performing at the Roseland Ballroom -
1925
The new musical form known as jazz is showcased at Aeolian Hall in New York in the “First American Jazz Concert” -
1926
Harmon Foundation first annual art exhibit of African-American artists’ works -
1927
Porgy, the musical by Dorothy and Du Bose Heyward, opens on Broadway
– Negro Drawings by Miguel Covarrubias is published -
1929
Wallace Thurman’s play Harlem opens on Broadway
Broadway premiere of Ain’t Misbehavin’ which features Fats Waller music
The stock market crashes on October 29 – economic crisis known as the Great Depression begins, and brings an end to the ‘Jazz Age’ -
1930
Aaron Douglas is commissioned for a series of murals at the University of Nashville Library – James V. Herring founds the Howard University Gallery of Art -
1922
Publication of The Book of American Negro Poetry, edited by James Weldon Johnson and Claude McKay