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1912 |
The Titanic sinks on its first trip to from Europe to New York drowning 1,513 people.
World-renowned photojournalist, film maker, novelist, poet and musician Gordon Parks is born.
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1913 |
Suffragette protests, British women demonstrate to demand the same voting rights as men.
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1914 |
Ethopia Awakening by Meta Warrick Fuller, sculptor, introduces African subject matter into African-American Art.
Panama Canal opens providing a 51-mile link that allows large ships passage between the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans.
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1915 |
Georgia Tech defeats Cumberland College 222 - 0 in gridiron (a record).
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1917 |
The United States joins the World War I, one million American soldiers fight with the Allied Powers.
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1918 |
Nelson Mandela, South African civil rights leader, born.
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1919 |
Mussolini becomes Il Duce (the leader) and sets up the Fascist Party in Italy
The Harlem Renaissance introduces black artists, writers, dancers, musicians and Harlem as a center for the promotion of the arts of persons of African ancestry the new African-American. |
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1920 |
Warren G. Harding of Marion, Ohio elected 29th President of the United States.
The National Football League founded in Canton, Stark County, Ohio.
Prohibition, producing and selling alcohol become illegal.
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1921 |
Mao Tse-tung establishes the Chinese Communist Party.
Shuffle Along, the first musical revue written and performed by Blacks, opens in New York and receives exceptional reviews. With music by Eubie Blake and lyrics by Noble Sissle, the revue launches the career of Josephine Baker and Florence Mills.
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1922 |
Egypt becomes an independent country from Britain.
King Oliver's Creole Jazz Band takes up residence in Chicago and begins to play New Orleans jazz in the North. Later the young Louis Armstrong will join this band.
Jessie Fauset's first novel, There is Confusion, is published. It is the first novel by a woman of the Harlem Renaissance.
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1923 |
Runnin' Wild, a musical revue by Blake and Sissle, opens on Broadway and introduces the 1920's to its most famous dance, the Charleston.
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1925 |
Charles G. Dawes of Marietta, Ohio becomes vice president under Calvin Coolidge.
A special edition of Survey Graphic, edited by Alaine Locke, in which Countee Cullen's poem Heritage appears with its famous line, "What is Africa to Me?"
The New Negro, Alain LeRoy Locke, the black intellectual and aesthete, gave voice and name to the times in trying to identify African and Afro-American traditions. The movement unleashed a cultural explosion in blues and jazz, literature, dance, film and theatre.
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1926 |
The Weary Blues, Langston Hughes' first book of verse is published.
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1927 |
Duke Ellington brings his band to the Cotton Club.
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1929 |
First color television demonstrated in New York City.
The Great Depression begins as the American stock market plummets forcing many banks and businesses to close in America and around the world. By 1932, twelve million Americans are out of work.
Ain't Misbehavin' opens on Broadway with music by Fats Waller and with Louis Armstrong in the orchestra.
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