38 killed in Chicago race riots. Alain Locke publishes The New Negro. Louis Armstrong brings New Orleans jazz to Chicago. Lindbergh flies across the Atlantic. Works at a brokerage house.
Stock market crashes.
Studies at Mechanic Institute, where he wins the Hoe Prize. Studies with painter Xavier Barille. 1937 Exhibits at Vendome Gallery. Augusta Savage creates The Harp for New York World's Fair. World War II begins in Europe.