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Integrationist Magazines

LITTLE MAGAZINE	YEAR STARTED	YEAR ENDED	YEARS EXTANT	ASSOCIATED EDITORS/AUTHORS
Free Lance	1953	1976	23	Russel Atkins (editor)
Yugen	1958	1963	5	LeRoi Jones (later Amiri Baraka), Hetti Cohen

Black Popular Magazines

LITTLE MAGAZINE	YEAR STARTED	YEAR ENDED	YEARS EXTANT	TYPE	ASSOCIATED EDITORS/AUTHORS
Arts Quarterly	1937	1939	2	Fine Arts Magazine	Dillard University
Negro World Digest	1940	1940	0	Black Popular Journal	Zora Neale Hurston, Sterling Brown, Ralph Ellison
Negro Digest (later Black World)	1942	1970	28	Black Popular (later Black Arts)	John H. Johnson (later Hoyt Fuller)
Negro Story	1944	1946	2	Black Popular Journal	Fern Gayden, Ralph Ellison, Langston Hughes

College Reviews

LITTLE MAGAZINE	YEAR STARTED	YEAR ENDED	YEARS EXTANT	ASSOCIATED EDITORS/AUTHORS
Phylon	1940	Ongoing	78+	Atlanta University, W.E.B. Du Bois

House Organs

LITTLE MAGAZINE	YEAR STARTED	YEAR ENDED	YEARS EXTANT	ASSOCIATED EDITORS/AUTHORS
African	1938	1938	0	Claude McKay (editor), Counteen Cullen (co-editor)
Harlem Quarterly	1949	1950	1	Harlem Writers Club, Benjamin Brown (editor)

Scholarly Journal

LITTLE MAGAZINE	YEAR STARTED	YEAR ENDED	YEARS EXTANT	ASSOCIATED EDITORS/AUTHORS
Midwest Journal	1948	1956	8	Langston Hughes, Melvin Tolson
Black Orpheus	1957	1975	18	Wole Soyinka, Aime Cesaire

Socialist Journals

LITTLE MAGAZINE	YEAR STARTED	YEAR ENDED	YEARS EXTANT	ASSOCIATED EDITORS/AUTHORS
Negro Quarterly	1942	1944	2	Angelo Herndon

Literary Journal (Special Issue)

LITTLE MAGAZINE	YEAR STARTED	YEAR ENDED	YEARS EXTANT	ASSOCIATED EDITORS/AUTHORS
Voices	1950	1950	0	Langston Hughes (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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