Harlem Renaissance

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  • NAAP

    The National Association for the Advancement of Colored People is founded.

  • Three Plays for a Negro Theater

    First, play to have African American actors

  • Protests

    A silent protest was organized in New York after the riots in St. Louis killed hundreds of blacks. During this time, many blacks got together and fought for their rights.

  • Shuffle Along

    First, musical written and performed by African Americans.

  • Civic Club Dinner

    Civic Club Dinner launches the New Negro this was an organized dinner where black writers were brought together with white publishers.

  • Jazz

    Jazz is born.

  • Paul Green

    Paul Green wrote a work called In Abraham's Bosom

  • Louis Armstrong

    Began his jazz career

  • Great Depression

    The stock market crashed, ushering in the Great Depression.

  • Scottsboro Trials

    These trials express the injustice against black men being falsely accused of raping a white woman.