Their Eyes Were Watching God Timeline
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Updated: 5 Nov 2018
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Created byWilliam Kaskay
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1937: Their Eyes Were Watching God is published.1948: President Truman issues Executive Order 9981 to end segregation in the Armed Services1954: Brown v. Board of Education effectively ends segregation in public schools.1891: Zora Neale Hurston is born in Notasulga, Alabama1955: Rosa Parks refuses to give up her seat to white man on Montgomery, Alabama bus.1957: Nonviolent protests against racial segregation and discrimination1957: The "Little Rock Nine" are blocked from integrating into Central High School.1957: Eisenhower signs the Civil Rights Act of 1957 into law to help protect voter rights.1960: Woolworth's Sit-In1963: George C. Wallace blocks students from registering at University of Alabama1963: The March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom1963: Bombing in Birmingham, Alabama1964: President Lyndon B. Johnson signs the Civil Rights Act of 1964 into law1965: Malcom X is assassinated1965: Selma to Montgomery March1965: President Johnson signs the Voting Rights Act of 1965.1968: Martin Luther King, Jr. is assassinated1968: President Johnson signs the Civil Rights Act of 19681917: Hurston attends Morgan Academy in BaltimoreClaude McKay’s Home to Harlem is published, becoming the first bestseller by a black authorThe stock market crashes on October 29 – economic crisis known as the Great Depression begins, and brings an end to the ‘Jazz Age’Marc Connelly’s The Green Pastures opens on Broadway on February 26, with an all-black castLouis Armstrong is featured in the musical short “A Rhapsody in Black and Blue”Mass defection of blacks from the Republican Party beginsMany Harlem Renaissance writers and artists find employment in a government-sponsored program, the Works Project Administration, designed to create American jobsW.E.B. Du Bois resigns from Crisis and the NAACPHarlem Race Riot, March 19th, sparked by anger over discrimination by white-owned businessesAaron Douglas makes murals for the Hall of Negro Life at the Texas Centennial exposition in DallasClaude McKay’s Long Way from Home is publishedJacob Lawrence’s first solo exhibition at the Harlem YMCA opens; he finishes his Toussaint L’Ouverture series.Zora Neale Hurston’s Moses: Man of the Mountain is publishedLangston Hughes’ The Big Sea is publishedHurston works as a waitress in a nightclub and a manicurist in a black-owned barbershop that only serves whites.Hurston attends Howard Prep School, Washington, D.C.Hurston attends Howard University; receives an associate degree in 1920.Hurston publishes her first story, “John Redding Goes to Sea,” in Stylus, the campus literary society’s magazine.Hurston publishes “Drenched in Light,” a short story, in Opportunity.Hurston submits a story, “Spunk,” and a play, Color Struck, to Opportunity’s literary contest. Both win second-place award; publishes “Spunk” in the June number.Hurston attends Barnard College, studying anthropology with Franz Boas.Hurston begins field work for Boas in Harlem.Hurston publishes “John Redding Goes to Sea” in Opportunity.Hurston organizes Fire! With Langston Hughes and Wallace Thurman; they publish only one issue, in November 1926. The issue includes Hurston’s “Sweat.”Hurston publishes “Muttsy” in Opportunity.Hurston satirized as “Sweetie Mae Carr” in Wallace Thurman’s novel about the Harlem Renaissance Infants of the Spring; receives a bachelor of arts degree from Barnard.Hurston works on the play Mule Bone with Langston Hughes.Hurston breaks with Langston Hughes over the authorship of Mule Bone.Hurston writes and stages a theatrical revue called The Great Day, first performed on January 10 on Broadway at the John Golden Theatre; works with the creative literature department of Rollins College, Winter Park, Florida, to produce a concert program of Negro music.Hurston goes to Bethune-Cookman College to establish a school of dramatic arts “based on pure Negro expression.”Begins to study for a Ph.D in anthropology at Columbia University on a fellowship from the Rosenwald Foundation.Hurston joins the WPA Federal Theater Project as a “dramatic coach.”Mules and Men published.Hurston In Haiti; writes Their Eyes Were Watching God in seven weeks.Hurston joins the Federal Writers Project in Florida to work on The Florida Negro.Hurston receives an honorary Doctor of Letters degree from Morgan State college.Hurston hired at a drama instructor by North Carolina College for Negroes at Durham; meets Paul Green, professor of drama, at the University of North Carolina.Hurston goes to British Honduras to research black communities in Central America; writes Seraph on the Suwanee; stays in Honduras until March 1948.Hurston hired by the Pittsburgh Courier to cover the Ruby McCollum case.Hurston works as a librarian at Patrick Air Force Base in Florida.Hurston works as a substitute teacher at Lincoln Park Academy, Fort Pierce.Hurston dies in the St. Lucie County Welfare Home of “hypertensive heart disease”; buried in an unmarked grave in the Garden of Heavenly Rest, Fort Pierce.The National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) is founded, and W.E.B. du Bois becomes editor of their monthly magazine, CrisisJames Weldon Johnson’s novel Autobiography of an Ex-Colored Man is publishedMarcus Garvey, born in Jamaica, arrives in Harlem and founds the United Negro Improvement Association (UNIA)W.E.B. Du Bois organizes the Pan-African Congress in Paris in FebruaryUNIA holds its First International Convention of the Negro Peoples of the World at Madison Square Garden, New YorkLangston Hughes’ poem “The Negro Speaks of Rivers” is published in CrisisThe Boston Public Library has an exhibition of African-American visual arts and literatureThe Cotton Club, Harlem’s largest and most famous cabaret opensW.E.B Du Bois’ The Gift of Black Folk publishedSurvey Graphic publishes an issue entirely about the work of Harlem Renaissance artists and writersThe short-lived literary and art magazine, Fire!!, is launched by Langston Hughes, Wallace Thurman and Zora Neale Hurston, with illustrations by Aaron Douglas and Richard Bruce NugentDuke Ellington begins a three-year stint at The Cotton Club
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