LITTLE MAGAZINES BY TYPE:
STARTED 1905-1935
(THE HARLEM RENAISSANCE)
Harlem Renaissance Magazines
LITTLE MAGAZINE
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YEAR STARTED
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YEAR ENDED
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YEARS EXTANT
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ASSOCIATED EDITORS/AUTHORS
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Moon Illustrated Weekly
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1905
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1906
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1
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W.E.B. Du Bois
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Horizon
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1907
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1910
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3
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W.E.B. Du Bois
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Opportunity
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1923
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1949
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26
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Charles S. Johnson
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Fire!!
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1926
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1926
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0
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Wallace Thurman (editor), Langston Hughes, Zora Neale Hurston
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Black Opals
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1927
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1928
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1
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Arthur Fauset (editor)
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Caroline Magazine
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1927
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1929
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2
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Eulalie Spence
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Harlem
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1928
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1928
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0
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Wallace Thurman (editor)
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Saturday Evening Quill
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1928
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1930
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2
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Boston Quill Club, Eugene Gordon
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Metropolitan
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1935
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1935
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0
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Jessie Fauset, Rudolph Fisher
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Black Popular Magazines
LITTLE MAGAZINE
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YEAR STARTED
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YEAR ENDED
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YEARS EXTANT
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TYPE
| ASSOCIATED EDITORS/AUTHORS
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Alexander's Magazine
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1905
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1909
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4
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Uplift
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Champion
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1916
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1917
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1
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Fine Arts
| Fenton Johnson (editor)
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New Era
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1916
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1916
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0
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Uplift
| Pauline Hopkins (editor)
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Half-Century Magazine
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1916
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1925
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9
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Women's Magazine
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Competitor
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1920
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1921
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1
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Uplift
|
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Reflexus
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1925
|
1925
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0
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Black Popular Journal
| Richard L. Jones
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Spokesman
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1925
|
1926
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1
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Uplift
|
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American Life Magazine
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1926
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1928
|
2
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Black Popular Journal
|
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Bronzeman
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1929
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1933
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4
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Pulp
|
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Abbott's Monthly
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1930
|
1933
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3
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Pulp
| Himes, Hughes, Wright
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College Reviews
LITTLE MAGAZINE
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YEAR STARTED
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YEAR ENDED
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YEARS EXTANT
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ASSOCIATED EDITORS/AUTHORS
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Stylus
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1916
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1947
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31
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Howard University / Alain Locke
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House Organs
LITTLE MAGAZINE
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YEAR STARTED
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YEAR ENDED
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YEARS EXTANT
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ASSOCIATED EDITORS/AUTHORS
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The Crisis
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1910
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Ongoing
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108+
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NAACP / W.E.B. Du Bois
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Scholarly Journal
LITTLE MAGAZINE
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YEAR STARTED
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YEAR ENDED
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YEARS EXTANT
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ASSOCIATED EDITORS/AUTHORS
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Race
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1935
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1936
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1
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Langston Hughes
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Socialist Journals
LITTLE MAGAZINE
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YEAR STARTED
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YEAR ENDED
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YEARS EXTANT
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ASSOCIATED EDITORS/AUTHORS
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Messenger
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1917
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1928
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11
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A. Philip Randolph, Chandler Owen
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Challenge and New Challenge
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1934
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1937
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3
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Dorothy West, Richard Wright
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Literary Arts (Special Issue)
LITTLE MAGAZINE
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YEAR STARTED
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YEAR ENDED
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YEARS EXTANT
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ASSOCIATED EDITORS/AUTHORS
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Survey Graphic
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1925
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1925
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0
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Alain Locke (Guest editor)
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Palms
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1926
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1926
|
0
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Countee Cullen (Guest editor)
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*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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