Literary Timeline

1919- Benjamin Brawley publishes The Negro in Literature and Art in the United States

1920- Claude Mckay publishes Spring in New Hampshire

1920- Du Bois’s Dark Water is published

1921- Benjamin Brawley publishes Social History of the American Negro

1922- Publications of The Book of American Negro Poetry edited by James W. Johnson and Claude McKay's Harlem Shadows

1923- Publications of Jean Toomer’s Cane and Marcus Garvey’s Philosophy and Opinion of Marcus Garvey 2 Vols.

1924- Countee Cullen wins first prize in the Witter Bynner Poetry Competition

1925- Alaine Locke’s The New Negro

1925- Walter While’s Flight

1925- W.C. Handy’s Blues

1926- Langston Hughes’ The Weary Blues

1926- Carl Van Vechten’s Nigger Heaven

1935- Countee Cullen’s The Medea and Other Poems

1935- Zora Neale Hurston’s Mules and Men

1939- Hurston’s Moses: Man of the Mountain

1940- Hughes’ The Big Sea

1940- McKay’s Harlem: Negro Metropolis

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