Harlem Renaissance Timeline
BY: Ahmad Henry
1910
W.E.B du bois is the editor of the NAACP and this association is discovered
1912
An autobiography called Ex Colored Man is published by James Weldon Johnson
1917
Marcus Garvey found the association called the (UNIA)
10,000-15,000 African Americans joined the Silent Protest Parade
1919
The Red Summer begin and race riots happened in Chicago and D.C.
1920
James Weldon Johnson became the head of the (NAACP)
1921
An anti-lynching bill was passed through which became an actually crime
1922
Claude McKay's book Harlem Shadows was published
1923
Cotton Club was Harlem's most largest and greatest cabaret openings