1926
A. Philip Randolph founds the Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters in the United States.
1926
President Coolidge tells Congress that the country must provide "for the amelioration of race prejudice and the extension to all elements of equal opportunity and equal protection under the laws, which are
guaranteed by the Constitution." Twenty-three blacks are reported lynched during the year.
1926
Controversy rages among the black intelligentsia after publication of Nigger Heaven by white writer Carl van Vechten. The book glamorizes the free wheeling style of Harlem life amid the general contention
that blacks are less ashamed of sex and more morally honest than whites. DuBois finds the assumptions deplorable; James Weldone Johnson, on the other hand, believes the treatment is neither scandalous nor insulting.
1926
Negro History Week is introduced by Dr. Carter G. Woodson and the Association for the Study of Negro Life and History in Washington, D.C.
1926
Langston Hughes, writing in The Nation magazine, urges black artists to write from their experience and to stop imitating white writers.
1926
Statistics-population: USSR 148 million, US 115 million, Japan 85 million, Germany 64 million and Britain 45 million. Freemasons are estimated at 4.2 million in 28,000 lodges worldwide. Religious orders in Germany: 559 male with 10,000 members, 6,600 female with 74,000 members. (Timetables)
1926
Edward R. Stettinius Jr. becomes special assistant to John Lee Pratt of General Motors.
1926
Marshal Josef Pilsudski seizes complete power in a coup in
Poland and rules dictatorially until his death.
1926
Pope Pius XI bans Roman Catholic participation in the Action Francaise movement, a radical right-wing political movement active in France from 1899 to 1944. (Founded by Charles Maurras (1868-1952), it espoused royalism, authoritarianism, nationalism, and antisemitism. Through its newspaper, "L'Action Francaise," and its student groups, called Camelots du Roi, the movement attacked the democratic institutions of the Third Republic.
1926
Allen W. Dulles joins the law firm of Sullivan and Cromwell in New York.
1926
Hitler holds a Nazi "Party Day" rally at Weimar. He and many other speakers advocate driving the Jews out of all German life. (Atlas)
1926
The German Steel Trust, Germany's largest industrial corporation, is organized by Wall Street banker Clarence Dillion. In return for putting up $70 million, Fritz Thyssen, the majority owner, gives the Dillion Read Company two representatives on the board.
1926
Colonies of strange Hindu mystics settle in Munich and Berlin. (Pauwels)
1926
Felix Dzerzhinsky dies, and the OGPU, which he had founded as the Cheka in 1917, supports Stalin.
1926
Nikolai Bukharin becomes president of the Communist International (Comintern).
1926
Robert Goddard launches the first liquid-propellant rocket.
1926
Chiang Kai-shek organizes the Northern Expedition to unite China.
1926
Joseph Goebbels sides with Hitler against Otto and Gregor Strasser in a Nazi Party split. Gregor will remain Hitler's most powerful opponent in the Party.
1926
Eamon De Valera organizes the Fianna Fail party in the Republic of Ireland.
1926
A General Strike in Britain involves more than three million workers.
1926 January
At the beginning of the year, the National Socialist party announces membership of 30,000 and foundation of the SS as Hitler's personal bodyguard.
1926 January
Detlef Schmude returns to the ONT priory at Hollenberg after eighteen months in Persia. (Roots)
1926 January 1
Prince Michael of Romania is proclaimed heir to the throne by the Romanian Parliament after his father, Prince Carol, is deprived of his inheritance.
1926 January 6
Jorg Lanz von Liebenfels purchases the ruined 13th century church of Szent Balazs, near the village of Szentantalfa on the northern shore of Lake Balaton, as the new seat for the ONT priory of Marienkamp.
Hungarian ONT brothers Ladislaus and Wilhelm are appointed as the priory's keepers. (Roots)
