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