SUBSCRIPTION TO THE HARLEM RENAISSANCE

Opportunity: A Journal of Negro Life was founded by Charles S. Johnson in 1923 and published monthly by the National Urban League until 1949. The Crisis, founded by W.E.B. DuBois in 1910 and published monthly by the NAACP, was one of the first national periodicals by-and-for African Americans. The Messenger was published monthly from 1917 until 1928. It began with a socialist agenda but transitioned into a formidable literary publication.

The Saturday Evening Quill was a literary journal published by Boston’s Saturday Evening Quill Club annually from 1928 to 1930. “Of the booklets issued by young Negro writers in New York, Philadelphia and elsewhere," wrote W.E.B. Du Bois, "this is by far the best."

Carolina Magazine, the literary magazine of the University of North Carolina, published a “Negro Number” annually from 1927 until 1930, The product of this historic four-year collaboration between prominent Harlem Renaissance writers and students at an all-white Southern university rivals any Harlem Renaissance era anthology.

BLACK OPALS, a literary journal based in Philadelphia, was co-founded by Nellie Rathbone Bright and Arthur Huff Fauset to highlight and encourage young African American writers. Well-known writers like Alain Locke and Langston Hughes also contributed. Today, original copies of these four small but powerful issues are very rare. (Reproductions are 6x9 inches, 24 pages each)