LITTLE MAGAZINES BY TYPE:
STARTED 1961-1974
(THE BLACK ARTS MOVEMENT)


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Black Arts Movement Magazines
LITTLE MAGAZINE
YEAR STARTED
YEAR ENDED
YEARS EXTANT
ASSOCIATED EDITORS/AUTHORS
Liberator
1961
1971
10
Daniel Watts, LeRoi Jones (later Amiri Baraka)
Umbra
1963
1975
12
DanThomas Dent (editor), Calvin Hernton, David Henderson (associate editors),Rolland Snellings, Ishmael Reed
Black Dialogue
1964
1970
6
SF State University, Aubrey Labrie (editor), Amiri Baraka, Larry Neal, Ed Bullins, Nikki Giovanni
Soul Book
1964
1976
12
Donald Freeman, Isaac Moore, Ernest Allen Jr., Carroll Holmes, Kenn M. Freeman, Bobb Hamilton
Journal of Black Poetry
1966
1973
7
Joe Goncalves
Nommo
1968
1972
4
UCLA
Black World (formerly Negro Digest)
1970
1976
6
Hoyt Fuller (editor), previously John H. Johnson
Phase II, Journal of Black Art Renaissance
1970
1971
1
Sarah Webster Fabio
Black Review
1971
1972
1
Mel Watkins (editor)
WATU: Journal of Black Poetry/Art
1971
1971
0
Granville Walker
Kitabu Cha Jua
1974
1976
2
Joe Goncalves


College Reviews
LITTLE MAGAZINE
YEAR STARTED
YEAR ENDED
YEARS EXTANT
ASSOCIATED EDITORS/AUTHORS
Dasein
1961
1969
8
Howard University


House Organ
LITTLE MAGAZINE
YEAR STARTED
YEAR ENDED
YEARS EXTANT
ASSOCIATED EDITORS/AUTHORS
African Forum
1965
1967
2
American Society of African Culture


Scholarly Journals
LITTLE MAGAZINE
YEAR STARTED
YEAR ENDED
YEARS EXTANT
ASSOCIATED EDITORS/AUTHORS
BANC: Black; Afro-American; Negro; Colored
1970
1971
1
Fisk University
Black Creation
1970
1975
5
NYU, Fred Beauford (editor)
Renaissance 2: A Journal of Afro-American Studies
1971
1973
2
Afro-American Cultural Center, Yale University


Socialist Journals
LITTLE MAGAZINE
YEAR STARTED
YEAR ENDED
YEARS EXTANT
ASSOCIATED EDITORS/AUTHORS
Freedomways
1961
1985
24
Shirley Graham (editor, Wife of W.E.B. Du Bois)


*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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