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The Harlem Renaissance

By linhla15

  • 1910

    1910
    The National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) is founded, and W.E.B. du Bois becomes editor of their monthly magazine, Crisis

  • 1912

    1912
    James Weldon Johnson's influential novel Autobiography of an Ex-Colored Man is published.

  • 1917

    1917
    Jamaican-born Marcus Garvey arrives in Harlem and founds the United Negro Improvement Association, an organization that urges blacks to unite and form their own nation.

  • 1920

    1920
    Acclaimed American playwright Eugene O'Neil's drama The Emperor Jones opens at the Provincetown Playhouse with black actor Charles Gilpin in the lead role.

  • 1922

    1922
    The first major book of the Harlem Renaissance appears when Claude McKay's novel Harlem Shadows is published by Harcourt, Brace.

  • 1925

    1925
    Well-known white poet Vachel Lindsay reads the poems of Langston Hughes, then working as a restaurant busboy, to the audience at his own poetry reading, announcing that he has discovered a bright new talent.

  • 1927

    1927
    Several young Harlem Renaissance writers and artists accept money and other help from wealthy patron Charlotte Mason, whom they call "Godmother."