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Hayes withdrew the last federal troops from the south effectively ending reconstruction
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The Jim crow laws started after the end of reconstruction to help enforce racial segregation in the American south
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Between 1890-1920 nearly 2 million African Americans migrated from their southern states to the Northern to find a better life and get away from discrimination
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Harlem which was founded by well to do whites but as former slaves and immigrants moved north, they settled in this neighborhood
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The National Association for the Advancement of Colored People was founded
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About 12,000 African Americans participate in the silent protest parade, they marched down the 5th avenue in silent protest against violence African Americans. This was sparked after riots killed in St. Louis
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Marcus Garvey arrived in Harlem and found the united negro improvement association. In 1918 Marcus started publishing with his work the new negro
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In 1921 Langston Hughes returned to the U.S. and he started studying at Columbia University where he became a part of the bustling Harlem Renaissance
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The Cotton Club was opened in the heart of Harlem by a white new york gangster Owney Madden. Madden used the club to seel his prohibition beer to his crowd. The club was a white client only place, it was decorated to look like a plantation style. Famous people like Duke Ellington performed at the club
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Alan Locke wrote Harlem the Mecca of the New Negro Movement this helped continue the Movement and the Harlem Renaissance
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In 1927 Louis Armstrong started his Jazz career
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It was a riot that started in a Manhatten neighborhood of Harlem it started after Lino Rivera, a 16-year-old black Puerto Rican, was caught stealing a penknife from the S.H. Kress dime store a crowd formed outside and the owner told the police that they let him go and they agreed. The crowd didn't know so they thought the police killed him so they started a riot
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African American Author Zora Neil Hurston published their novel Their Eyes were watching God. This is considered the last novel of the Harlem Renaissance
