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1931 |
Alvin Alley, influential African-American choreographer, is born.
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1932 |
Taft Museum opens in Cincinnati, it was formerly the Baum, Longworth, Sinton and Taft home.
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1933 |
Adolf Hitler becomes "Der Fuhrer" (the leader) of Germany. His dreams of making Germany the strongest country in the world leads to World War II and the Holocaust.
Benny Goodman arranges for the recording of singer Billie Holiday's first record. She was 18 years old.
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1935 |
- Sargent Johnson (1887-1967) created images based on the pure African physicality and influences of traditional African image including Mask, a helmet mask inspired from those of the Benin culture. During this time his work provides the most direct examples of African-American art inspired by African art.
African Negro Art, the first large exhibition of traditional African art at a major American museum, opens at the Museum of Modern Art, New York City
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1936 |
The British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) begins the first black and white television service to be available to all.
President Franklin Roosevelt is re-elected by the largest voting landslide in American political history .
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1937 |
German airship, the Hindenberg, is destroyed by fire in New Jersey.
Six Ohio workers are killed and many more are injured in a violent month-long strike against the "Little Steel" companies.
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1938 |
Lois Mailou Jones (1905-1998) well known as a painter, teacher, book illustrator and textile designer, as a painter she was one of the first women to reflect African images in her work Les Fetiches. |
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1940 |
Pre-historic wall paintings are discovered in the caves of Lascaux, France.
Jacob Lawrence (1917-2000) painted one of his best known series The Migration of the Negro depicting the migration of over a million African Americans from the South to industrial North between 1910-1940.
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1941 |
Pearl Harbor, a United States navel base in the Hawaiian islands, is attacked by Japanese air bombers, thus forcing the United States to join in World War II.
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1947 |
Diary of Anne Frank is published, which details a Jewish family's two years of hiding from the Nazis during World War II.
Presence Africaine, a journal devoted to African culture, is established by Alioine Diop in Senegal.
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1948 |
George Orwell writes the novel 1984, which introduces the slogan, "Big Brother is Watching You".
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1949 |
Many countries in northern Europe join with Canada and the United States to form the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO).
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1950 |
India becomes a republic.
China occupies Tibet.
John Biggers (1924-) a contemporary African-American artist whose art reflects understanding oneself by understanding one's roots, is awarded first prize for The Cradle at the annual exhibition at the Museum of Fine Arts in Houston. Unable to attend the opening because of his race, later such discrimination was abolished.
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