Nigger Heaven

Arts and expression

Mar 5, 1920

African past and to utilize this in their art.

Why

Mar 5, 1920

Writers would write to express there feelings, and how things where going and how they felt.

People

Mar 11, 1920

Eugene O'Neill's plays "The Emperor Jones" (1920)

Feelings

Mar 5, 1922

takes a new pride in a racial identity and heritage, of the "renewed self-respect and self-dependence" felt in the contemporary black community, which is "about to enter a new phase."

African Americans

Mar 7, 1925

African Americans from the rural South, became the major center for urbanized blacks. The renaissance was associated with the New Negro Movement

Harlem Globetrotters established

Mar 7, 1927

Harlem Globetrotters was first established

Harlem by Wallace Thurman opens

Mar 1, 1929

Harlem by Wallace Thurman opens on Broadway becoming the most successful production of the time by a black author.

buying on credit

Mar 7, 1930

Consumer debt more than doubled by 1930

Started

Mar 7, 1935

movement that began in Harlem, New York after World War I and ended around 1935 during the Great Depression.