Opportunity: A Journal for Negro Life, founded by Charles S. Johnson and published monthly by the National Urban League from 1923 until 1949, was one of the first national periodicals by-and-for African Americans.
The Crisis was founded in 1910 by W.E.B. DuBois for the NAACP. It was one of the first national periodicals by-and-for African Americans, and has continued publication until today.
The Messenger, published monthly from 1917 until 1928, was a socialist and literary magazine. Like The Crisis and Opportunity, it was one of the first national periodicals by-and-for African Americans.
Boston’s Saturday Evening Quill Club published its celebrated literary magazine, The Saturday Evening Quill, annually from 1928 to 1930. W.E.B. Du Bois said of The Saturday Evening Quill, “Of the booklets issued by young Negro writers in New York, Philadelphia, this is by far the best."
The Carolina Magazine, the literary magazine of the University of North Carolina, published a “Negro Number” annually from 1927 until 1930. The purpose was “…to present an issue representative of Negro life and art.” It was a collaboration between prominent Harlem Renaissance writers and a group of students at an all-white Southern university.
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