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A German submarine sinks the Lusitania, a civilian passenger ship.
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Jeanette Rankin becomes the first woman elected to the United States Congress
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Restricted freedom of speech such as “...any disloyal, profane, scurrilous, or abusive language about the form of government of the United States or the flag of the United States...”
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In Russia, the Bolsheviks revolt against Russia’s ineffectual Provisional Government. Their Party is led by Vladimir Lenin.
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A highly deadly strain of influenza (the flu) sweeps through America.
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Former President Woodrow Wilson gives a speech that details fourteen points necessary in order to achieve world peace.
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The United States senate comes to the decision to reject The Treaty of Versailles, meant to end World War 1, primarily because they opposed the League of Nations.
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The Harlem Renaissance was a revolutionary social, intellectual, musical, and artistic era of African American history in America that began in the sometime in the 1920s and ended in the 30s. It was often nicknamed the “New Negro Movement”.
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The Ratification of the 19th amendment gave women the right to vote in America.
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“The Negro Speaks of Rivers” was Langston Hughes’ first published poem. Hughes would go on to become one of the most recognized, and most popular, writers of the Harlem Renaissance, and “The Negro Speaks of Rivers” would become one his most well known works.
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Sara Vaughan was a jazz singer, she was nicknamed “Sassy” and “The Great One”. She would go on to win four Grammys.
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Maya Angelou was born in St. Louis Missouri in 1928. She would go on to become an author, memoirist, poet, actress, singer, civil rights activist, and one of my personal heroes.
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Thomas Woodrow Wilson is elected as the 28th president of the United States of America in 1913 and serves until 1921.
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Investigative journalist Ida B. Wells was an educator and an early civil rights leader.
