Harlem Renaissance

HARLEM RENAISSANCE HIGH SPOTS

1920

Brownie's Book—first issue of magazine for black children; edited by W. E. B. Du Bois and Jessie Redmon Fauset.

1921

Shuffle Along—first all-black Broadway show; score by Noble Sissle and Eubie Blake includes "Love Will Find a Way" and "I'm Just Wild About Harry."

The Light—weekly black newspaper—begins publication; subsequently renamed Heebie Jeebies.

1922

The Book of American Negro Poetry, edited by James Weldon Johnson.

1923

Cotton Club nightclub opens.

Opportunity—first issue of magazine sponsored by the Urban League.

Runnin Wild—black musical produced on Broadway.

1924

Publication of Jean Toomer's Cane.

Publication of There Is Confusion by Jessie Redmon Fauset.

1925

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