Temples for Tomorrow: Looking Back at the Harlem Renaissance

Chronology

Chronology Year Literature Visual and Plastic The Performing Society The International Scene Arts, Film Arts 1892 Anna Julia Cooper’s A Voice from the South by a Black Woman of the South 1893 World Columbian Exposition held in Chicago 1895 Booker T. Washington delivers Atlanta Exposition speech Victoria E. Matthews addresses the First Congress of Colored Women of the United States on “The Value of a Race Literature” 1896 Supreme Court Plessy vs. Ferguson decision 1899 W.E.B. DuBois’s The Philadelphia Negro 1900 Booker T. Washington, Fannie Barrier Williams, and N.B. Woods’s A New Negro for a New Century 1902 Special issue of Paris qui chante describes ragtime 1906 Exposition Coloniale in Marseilles 1909 National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) founded 1910 NAACP magazine The Crisis Raymond Roussel’s Impresdebuts under W.E.B. Dusion d’Afrique Bois’s editorship 1912 James Weldon Johnson’s The Autobiography of an ExColoured Man 1913 New York Armory Show Darktown Follies at the Lafagives post-impressionism its yette Theater, Harlem American debut 1915 Release of D.W. Griffith’s The Birth of a Nation; ensuing protests against the film’s racist images lead to creation of the Association for the Study of Negro Life and History and to efforts to create independent black motion picture industry 1916 Angelina Weld Grimké’s RaJournal Challenge debuts unchel performed in Washingder William Bridges’s editon , D.C. (first full-length torship play written and produced by African-Americans in 20th century) Year Literature Visual and Plastic The Performing Society The International Scene Arts, Film Arts 1917 Three Plays for a Negro TheThe Messenger (“The Only Louis Mitchell goes to Paris atre by white playwright Radical Negro Magazine in and forms the Jazz Kings; opens on Broadway America”) debuts under they perform at the Casino A. Philip Randolph and de Paris in 1920s Chandler Owen’s editorship East St. Louis riots: in response , Silent Protest Parade held in New York, with W.E.B. DuBois and James W. Johnson at forefront Paul Guillaume publishes his first volume on sculptures nègres; preface by G. Apollinaire 1918 Georgia D. Johnson’s The Will Marion Cook founds Igor Stravinsky’s “Ragtime” Heart of a Woman Southern Syncopated OrNatalie Curtis’s Negro Folkchestra W. M. Cook and the Southsongs ern Syncopated Orchestra go to London in 1919; perform in Paris in 1920s; inspire Philippe Soupault’s Le Nègre in 1927 James Reese Europe conducts members of The Hellfighters (the 369th Regiment) in Paris, outside a hospital Year Literature Visual and Plastic The Performing Society The International Scene Arts, Film Arts 1919 Claude McKay’s If We Must Wave of nationwide, antiBlack U.S. 369th Regiment Die black violence and lynching of Harlem awarded French known as the “Red croix de guerre Summer” Sculptor Augusta Savage leaves Jamaica for London; attends art schools All-black 369th Regiment Du Bois organizes first Panmarches up New York’s African Congress in Paris Fifth Avenue NAACP conference on Dada movement in Paris, aclynchings ; publishes Thirty tivities highlighting exploYears of Lynchings in the sive sounds of jazz United States 1889–1919 Igor Stravinsky’s Le Sacre du Printemps Ernest Ansermet conducts the Ballets Russes “Sur un Orchèstre Nègre” 1920 Eugene O’Neill’s The Dreamy Marcus Garvey founds Negro Kid World, an arts and literature journal backed by United Negro Improvement Association (UNIA) Palmer C. Hayden enrolls at Marcus Garvey’s First InterAlbert Alexander Smith, Columbia University national Convention of the graphic artist (student at NaNegro Peoples of the tional Academy of Design World: Madison Square in New York) and jazz musiGarden , New York cian, moves to Europe Year Literature Visual and Plastic The Performing Society The International Scene Arts, Film Arts Meta Vaux Warrick Fuller’s The Theatrical Owners and André Salmon’s “Negro Art” sculpture at Pennsylvania Bookers Association in Burlington Magazine Academy of the Fine Arts (TOBA), for performers on the black circuit, is founded 1921 August Savage leaves Florida; Musical revue Shuffle Along René Maran wins France’s attends Cooper Union, New starring Florence Mills, Prix Goncourt for Batouala York with Josephine Baker, opens at David Belasco Theater James V. Herring establishes Noble Sissle and Eubie the Department of Art at Blake, “I’m Just Wild about Howard University in Harry” Washington, D.C. Exhibit of works by Negro Paul Robeson’s debut in artists at...