LITTLE MAGAZINES BY TYPE:
STARTED 1905-1935
(THE HARLEM RENAISSANCE)

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Harlem Renaissance Magazines
LITTLE MAGAZINE
 		YEAR STARTED
 		YEAR ENDED
 YEARS EXTANT
 		ASSOCIATED EDITORS/AUTHORS
Moon Illustrated Weekly
 		1905
 		1906
 1
 		W.E.B. Du Bois
Horizon
 		1907
 		1910
 3
 		W.E.B. Du Bois
Opportunity
 		1923
 		1949
 26
 		Charles S. Johnson
Fire!!
 		1926
 		1926
 0
 		Wallace Thurman (editor), Langston Hughes, Zora Neale Hurston
Black Opals
 		1927
 		1928
 1
 		Arthur Fauset (editor)
Caroline Magazine
 		1927
 		1929
 2
 		Eulalie Spence
Harlem
 		1928
 		1928
 0
 		Wallace Thurman (editor)
Saturday Evening Quill
 		1928
 		1930
 2
 		Boston Quill Club, Eugene Gordon
Metropolitan
 		1935
 		1935
 0
 		Jessie Fauset, Rudolph Fisher


Black Popular Magazines
LITTLE MAGAZINE
 		YEAR STARTED
 		YEAR ENDED
 YEARS EXTANT
 		TYPE
 		ASSOCIATED EDITORS/AUTHORS
Alexander's Magazine
 		1905
 		1909
 4
 		Uplift
Champion
 		1916
 		1917
 1
 		Fine Arts
 		Fenton Johnson (editor)
New Era
 		1916
 		1916
 0
 		Uplift
 		Pauline Hopkins (editor)
Half-Century Magazine
 		1916
 		1925
 9
 		Women's Magazine
Competitor
 		1920
 		1921
 1
 		Uplift
Reflexus
 		1925
 		1925
 0
 		Black Popular Journal
 		Richard L. Jones
Spokesman
 		1925
 		1926
 1
 		Uplift
American Life Magazine
 		1926
 		1928
 2
 		Black Popular Journal
Bronzeman
 		1929
 		1933
 4
 		Pulp
Abbott's Monthly
 		1930
 		1933
 3
 		Pulp
 		Himes, Hughes, Wright


College Reviews
LITTLE MAGAZINE
 		YEAR STARTED
 		YEAR ENDED
 YEARS EXTANT
 		ASSOCIATED EDITORS/AUTHORS
Stylus
 		1916
 		1947
 31
 		Howard University / Alain Locke


House Organs
LITTLE MAGAZINE
 		YEAR STARTED
 		YEAR ENDED
 YEARS EXTANT
 		ASSOCIATED EDITORS/AUTHORS
The Crisis
 		1910
 		Ongoing
 108+
 		NAACP / W.E.B. Du Bois


Scholarly Journal
LITTLE MAGAZINE
 		YEAR STARTED
 		YEAR ENDED
 YEARS EXTANT
 		ASSOCIATED EDITORS/AUTHORS
Race
 		1935
 		1936
 1
 		Langston Hughes


Socialist Journals
LITTLE MAGAZINE
 		YEAR STARTED
 		YEAR ENDED
 YEARS EXTANT
 		ASSOCIATED EDITORS/AUTHORS
Messenger
 		1917
 		1928
 11
 		A. Philip Randolph, Chandler Owen
Challenge and New Challenge
 		1934
 		1937
 3
 		Dorothy West, Richard Wright


Literary Arts (Special Issue)
LITTLE MAGAZINE
 		YEAR STARTED
 		YEAR ENDED
 YEARS EXTANT
 		ASSOCIATED EDITORS/AUTHORS
Survey Graphic
 		1925
 		1925
 0
 		Alain Locke (Guest editor)
Palms
 		1926
 		1926
 0
 		Countee Cullen (Guest editor)
*Main source for little magazines: Johnson, Abby Arthur. Propaganda and Aesthetics: The Literary Politics of Afro-American Magazines in the Twentieth Century. University of Massachussetts Press, 1991.

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