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The Jazz Era
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Guarantee Photo Studio opens
James VanDerZee and his wife open the Guarantee Photo Studio in Harlem. The portraits he shoots later become a treasured chronicle of the Harlem Renaissance. This is moderist becuase African Americans were looked down upon in this time. -
Marcus Garvey gives a speach
Marcus Garvey, leader of the Universal Negro Improvement Association, addresses 25,000 blacks at Madison Square Garden and presides over a parade of 50,000 through the streets of Harlem. -
The Negro Baseball League
The Negro Baseball LeagueThe Negro National League, first of baseball's Negro leagues, is established. Before this time Blacks werent allowed to play professional baseball. -
Oscar Charleston
Oscar CharlestonOscar Charleston, perhaps the best all-around baseball player in the history of the Negro leagues, leads his league in doubles, triples, and home runs, batting .434 for the year. His impressive stats show that black people are capeable of many things. -
Louis Armstong goes to Chicago
Louis ArmstrongLouis Armstrong leaves New Orleans, arriving in Chicago to play second trumpet in cornetist King Oliver's Creole Jazz Band. Armstrong's work in the 1920s would revolutionize jazz -
Charles Clinton Spaulding
Charles Clinton Spaulding becomes president of the North Carolina Mutual Life Insurance Company. He builds it into the nation's largest black-owned business by the time of his death in 1952. -
Bessie Smith is discovered
Blues singer Bessie Smith, discovered by pianist-composer Clarence Williams, makes her first recording. She will eventually become known as “Empress of the Blues.” -
Jean Toomer publishes Cane
Poet and novelist Jean Toomer publishes his masterpiece, Cane, an experimental novel often considered one of the greatest achievements of the Harlem Renaissance. -
Alain Locke edits The New Negro
The New Negro, an anthology of fiction, poetry, drama, and essays associated with the Harlem Renaissance, is edited by Alain Locke. -
Countee Cullen publishes Color to Critical Acclaim
Countee Cullen, Publishes his first collection of poems, Color, to critical acclaim before graduating from New York University. Displaying the cultural boundries that are still present. -
Langston Hughes
At a historic literary awards banquet during the Harlem Renaissance, Langston Hughes earns first place in poetry with The Weary Blues -
The Great Gatsby is published
The Great GatsbyWritten by F. Scott Fitzgerald, it is a novel of how even moeny wont buy you happyness. this is modernistic because it was telliong people the truth about life. -
Claude McKay publishes Home to Harlem
Poet and novelist Claude McKay publishes Home to Harlem, the first fictional work by an African American to reach the best-seller lists. -
Wallace Thurman publishes Infants of the Spring
Wallace ThurmanWallace Thurman publishes his satiric novel Infants of the Spring.This book satires the role of black writers in the Harlem Renaissance. -
Tender is the Night is published
F. Scott Fitzgeralds final complete novel was released in 1934. However this is during the great depression and the book doesnt sell well.
