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.

Opportunity 1925 art Winold Reiss Poems Countee Cullen, Georgia Douglas Johnson Esther Popel

JANUARY 1925: Cover art by Winold Reiss. Poems by Countee Cullen, Georgia Douglas Johnson, Esther Popel, and more.

Harlem Renaissance magazine reproduction Gwendolyn Bennett Countee Cullen Dorothy West

JULY 1926: Cover art by Gwendolyn Bennett. Poems by Gwendolyn Bennett, Countee Cullen, Georgia Douglas Johnson, Dorothy West, and more.

MARCH 1927: Cover art: from a pastel drawing of Langston Hughes by Winold Reiss. Four poems by Langston Hughes, and more.

APRIL 1923: Cover art by Laura Wheeler. Poems by Charles Bertram Johnson, editorials by W.E.B. Du Bois, and more.

COMING SOON: Cover art by Laura Wheeler. W.E.B. Du Bois’s, “The Negro in Art,” a poem by Langston Hughes, and more.

Messenger 1926 Ted Carroll Zora Neale Hurston Langston Hughes Georgia Douglas Johnson

SEPTEMBER 1926: Cover art by Ted Carroll. Poems by Langston Hughes and Georgia Douglas Johnson, "The Eatonville Anthology" by Zora Neale Hurston, and more

The Saturday Evening Quill

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."

1928: Dorothy West, Waring Cuney, Florida Ruffin Ridley, and more

List of Contents

1929: Helene Johnson, Waring Cuney, Lois Mailou Jones, and more

list of Contents

1930: Gertrude Schalk, Roscoe Wright, Reginald Margetson, and more.

list of Contents

Carolina Magazine

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.

1927: Contributors: Aaron Douglas, Langston Hughes, Countee Cullen, Arthur Huff Fauset, Helene Johnson, and more

list of Contents

1928: Contributors: Alain Locke, Arna Bontemps, Charles S. Johnson, Langston Hughes, Alice Dunbar-Nelson, and more.

list of contents

Aaron Douglas, Lewis Alexander, Eulalie Spence, Willis Richardson, John F. Matheus, May Miller, Dona

1929 &1930: Contributors: Aaron Douglas, Eulalie Spence, Willis Richardson, John Matheus, May Miller, and more.

list of Contents

Home
Short-Take Anthologies
Robust Anthologies
periodicals
Contact
About