1900-1910
Born in 1906, she was well known as a dancer, spy for the French army, and a mother of the "Rainbow Tribe".
Who is Josephine Baker?
This northern neighborhood in Paris was home to several nightclubs and and music halls frequented by African Americans in the 1920s.
What is Montmartre?
Founded in 1910, this journal is the main publication of the NAACP.
What is The Crisis?
What is jazz?
Born in 1906, he co-founded the Negritude movement and became the first President of Senegal in 1960
Who is Léopold Sédar Senghor
The Nardal sisters meeting space for Black intellectuals was known as the _________ salon, after the Paris suburb where they lived.
What is Clamart?
This book, published in 1952, established Frantz Fanon as a major anti-colonialist author.
What is Black Skin, White Masks?
This book, published in 1940, brought fame and fortune to Richard Wright.
What is Native Son?
Born in 1902, this sister wrote the 1928 essay "Internationalisme Noir"
Who is Jane Nardal?
The first Pan-African Congress, held in Paris in 1919, coincided with this major international meeting.
What is the Treaty of Versailles (meeting to end WWI)?
Paulette Nardal co-founded this journal in 1931 where she published essays, poems and short stories by both American and Francophone writers.
What is the Review of the Black World / Revue du Monde Noir?
Imported from Martinique during the 1931 Colonial Exposition, this musical form became a huge dance crazy in Paris.
What is The Beguine?
In 1903, this African-American author and activist published the groundbreaking The Souls of Black Folk.
Who is WEB Dubois?
This Parisian nightclub is named after its owner, an African American with red hair.
Who/what is Bricktop?
In her 1944 essay "The Great Camouflage" this author claims that readers must "Dare to know yourself".
Who is Suzanne Césaire?
The Fire Next Time and Giovanni's Rooms are important books by this author.
Who is James Baldwin?
Born in 1901, this famous poet and novelist spent time in Paris as a busboy at the Grand Duc cabaret.
Who is Langston Hughes?
In 1931, this major event in Paris displayed the cultures of indigenous groups from French colonies, critiqued as "human zoos".
What is the Colonial Exposition?
Although only in print for one year, this journal launched the Negritude movement in 1935.
What is L'Étudiant Noir / The Black Student?
A great friend of James Baldwin, this American modernist painter moved to Paris at age 52.
Who is Beauford Delaney?