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Gwendolyn Bennett was born July 8,1902
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Her poem "Nocturne" was published in Crisis in November 1923
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She attended Colombia University's Teaching college, transferred and graduated from Pratt Institute in 1924
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In 1925 she continued her fine arts education at Academic Julian & Ecole du Pantheon in Paris
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In 1926 most of her pieces were destroyed in a fire at her stepmother's home
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1927 she married Dr.Alfred Joseph Jackson
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1926-1928 she was releasing a monthly column The Ebony Flute in the Opportunity magazine
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In 1935 she entered the Harlem Artists Guild
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1936 her husband died, remarried in 1940 to a teacher Richard Crosscup
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From 1937-1944 Bennett was the head of the Harlem Community Art Center
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1968 she moved to Pennsylvania with her husband and opened an antique shop
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On May 30,1981 Gwendolyn Bennett dies of heart failure
