1920 |
The 19th Amendment is ratified, allowing women the right to vote. |
1920 |
Red Sox pitcher Babe Ruth is traded to the New York Yankees. |
1920 |
Andrew "Rube" Foster calls for a meeting at the Kansas City YMCA and forms the Negro National League. |
1920 |
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1921 |
The Tulsa riots leave at least 30 dead. |
1921 |
The first radio broadcast of a baseball game is heard. |
1922 |
The Dyer Anti-Lynching bill gets through the House of Representatives, but dies in the Senate. |
1922 |
James "Cool Papa" Bell joins the St. Louis Stars as a pitcher. He will be remembered though for the speed of his legs, not of his arm. |
1923 |
Kennesaw Mountain Landis restricts major league teams from barnstorming. They are only allowed to compete in All-Star Contests. |
1923 |
Colombia Records signs burgeoning blues singer Bessie Smith. |
1923 |
Martin Dihigo plays first base for the New York Cubans in his first of 12 seasons in the Negro Leagues. He is the only player inducted into the Baseball Halls of Fame of Mexico, Cuba and the United States. |
1923 |
John Donaldson forms his barnstorming team, the Donaldson Stars, and plays exhibition games all through the Midwest. |
1923 |
The Rens become basketball’s first all-black team. |
1924 |
Citizenship is granted to all Native Americans with the Indian Citizenship Act. |
1924 |
The Kansas City Monarchs win the first Negro League World Series, five games to Hilldale Daisies' four. |
1924 |
The Ku Klux Klan grows to 4.5 million members. A year later, 40,000 Klan members march in Washington, D.C. |
1926 |
Magician Harry Houdini dies. |
1926 |
John Coltrane and Miles Davis are born and soon will transform the world of music. |
1926 |
Langston Hughes writes The Negro Artist and the Racial Mountain as a leader of the Harlem Renaissance. He urges black artists to be proud of their African American heritage and produce and perform in their own style. |
1927 |
The New York Yankees, considered one of the best teams of all time, is led by Babe Ruth’s 60 home run season. |
1927 |
The Jazz Singer is the first major film with sound. |
1927 |
Duke Ellington fills in for "King" Oliver at the Cotton Club in Harlem and makes a name for himself. |
1927 |
Charles Lindbergh and the Spirit of St. Louis fly across the Atlantic Ocean, landing 3,600 miles away in Paris. |
1928 |
Ty Cobb retires, leaving his name stamped all over the record book. |
1928 |
Nella Larsen publishes Quicksand; the following year, she writes her novel Passing. |
1929 |
Stock Market crash spirals into the devastation of the Great Depression. |
1929 |
At twelve years old, Dizzy Gillespie teaches himself to play the trumpet. |