LITTLE MAGAZINE |
YEAR STARTED |
YEAR ENDED |
YEARS EXTANT |
TYPE |
CLASSIFICATION |
ASSOCIATED EDITORS/AUTHORS |
Anglo-African Magazine |
1859 |
1865 |
6 |
Scholarly Journal |
Scholarly Journal |
Martin Delany |
Colored American Magazine |
1900 |
1909 |
9 |
Uplift |
Black Popular |
Pauline Hopkins (editor) / Booker T. Washington (strongman) |
McGirt's Magazine |
1903 |
1907 |
4 |
Uplift |
Black Popular |
|
Voice of the Negro |
1904 |
1907 |
3 |
Uplift |
Black Popular |
Jesse Max Barber |
Alexander's Magazine |
1905 |
1909 |
4 |
Uplift |
Black Popular |
|
Moon Illustrated Weekly |
1905 |
1906 |
1 |
Harlem Renaissance |
Harlem Renaissance |
W.E.B. Du Bois |
Horizon: A Journal of the Color Line |
1907 |
1910 |
3 |
Harlem Renaissance |
Harlem Renaissance |
W.E.B. Du Bois |
The Crisis |
1910 |
Ongoing |
108+ |
House Organ |
House Organ |
NAACP / W.E.B. Du Bois |
Champion |
1916 |
1917 |
1 |
Fine Arts |
Black Popular |
Fenton Johnson (editor) |
New Era |
1916 |
1916 |
0 |
Uplift |
Black Popular |
Pauline Hopkins (editor) |
Half-Century Magazine |
1916 |
1925 |
9 |
Women's Magazine |
Black Popular |
|
Stylus |
1916 |
1947 |
31 |
College Review |
College Review |
Howard University / Alain Locke |
Messenger |
1917 |
1928 |
11 |
Socialist |
Socialist |
A. Philip Randolph, Chandler Owen |
The Competitor |
1920 |
1921 |
1 |
Uplift |
Black Popular |
|
Opportunity |
1923 |
1949 |
26 |
Harlem Renaissance |
Harlem Renaissance |
Charles S. Johnson |
Reflexus |
1925 |
1925 |
0 |
Black Popular Journal |
Black Popular |
Richard L. Jones |
Spokesman |
1925 |
1926 |
1 |
Uplift |
Black Popular |
|
Survey Graphic |
1925 |
1925 |
0 |
Literary Arts (Sepcial Issue) |
Literary Arts (Special Issue) |
Alain Locke (Guest editor) |
American Life Magazine |
1926 |
1928 |
2 |
Black Popular Journal |
Black Popular |
|
The Negro American Magazine |
1926 |
1929 |
3 |
Black Popular Journal |
Black Popular |
|
Fire!! |
1926 |
1926 |
0 |
Harlem Renaissance |
Harlem Renaissance |
Wallace Thurman (editor), Langston Hughes, Zora Neale Hurston |
Palms |
1926 |
1926 |
0 |
Literary Arts (Special Issue) |
Literary Arts (Special Issue) |
Countee Cullen (Guest editor) |
Black Opals |
1927 |
1928 |
1 |
Harlem Renaissance |
Harlem Renaissance |
Arthur Fauset (editor) |
Caroline Magazine |
1927 |
1929 |
2 |
Harlem Renaissance |
Harlem Renaissance |
Eulalie Spence |
Harlem: A Forum of Negro Life |
1928 |
1928 |
0 |
Harlem Renaissance |
Harlem Renaissance |
Wallace Thurman (editor) |
Saturday Evening Quill |
1928 |
1930 |
2 |
Harlem Renaissance |
Harlem Renaissance |
Boston Quill Club, Eugene Gordon |
Bronzeman |
1929 |
1933 |
4 |
Pulp |
Black Popular |
|
Abbott's Monthly |
1930 |
1933 |
3 |
Pulp |
Black Popular |
Himes, Hughes, Wright |
Challenge and New Challenge |
1934 |
1937 |
3 |
Socialist |
Socialist |
Dorothy West, Richard Wright |
Metropolitan |
1935 |
1935 |
0 |
Harlem Renaissance |
Harlem Renaissance |
Jessie Fauset, Rudolph Fisher |
Race |
1935 |
1936 |
1 |
Scholarly Journal |
Scholarly Journal |
Langston Hughes |
Arts Quarterly |
1937 |
1939 |
2 |
Fine Arts Magazine |
Black Popular |
Dillard University |
African |
1938 |
1938 |
0 |
House Organ |
House Organ |
Claude McKay (editor), Counteen Cullen (co-editor) |
Negro World Digest |
1940 |
1940 |
0 |
Black Popular Journal |
Black Popular |
Zora Neale Hurston, Sterling Brown, Ralph Ellison |
Phylon |
1940 |
Ongoing |
78+ |
Scholarly Journal |
Scholarly Journal |
Atlanta University, W.E.B. Du Bois |
Negro Digest (later Black World) |
1942 |
1970 |
28 |
Black Popular (later Black Arts) |
Black Popular (later Black Arts) |
John H. Johnson (later Hoyt Fuller) |
Negro Quarterly |
1942 |
1944 |
2 |
Socialist |
Socialist |
Angerlo Herndon |
Negro Story |
1944 |
1946 |
2 |
Black Popular Journal |
Black Popular |
Fern Gayden, Ralph Ellison, Langston Hughes |
Midwest Journal: A Magazine of Research and Creative Writing |
1948 |
1956 |
8 |
College Review |
Scholarly Journal |
Langston Hughes, Melvin Tolson |
Harlem Quarterly |
1949 |
1950 |
1 |
House Organ |
House Organ |
Harlem Writers Club, Benjamin Brown (editor) |
Voices: A Magazine of Verse |
1950 |
1950 |
0 |
Literary Arts (Special Issue) |
Literary Arts (Special Issue) |
Langston Hughes (Guest editor), Harold Vinal, editor |
The Free Lance |
1953 |
1976 |
23 |
Integrationist |
Integrationist |
Russel Atkins (editor) |
Black Orpheus |
1957 |
1975 |
18 |
Scholarly Journal |
Scholarly Journal |
Wole Soyinka, Aime Cesaire |
Yugen |
1958 |
1963 |
5 |
Integrationist |
Integrationist |
LeRoi Jones (later Amiri Baraka), Hetti Cohen |
Liberator |
1961 |
1971 |
10 |
Black Arts Movement |
Black Arts Movement |
Larry Neal, Daniel Watts, LeRoi Jones (later Amiri Baraka) |
Dasein |
1961 |
1969 |
8 |
College Review |
College Review |
Howard University |
Freedomways |
1961 |
1985 |
24 |
Socialist |
Socialist |
Shirley Graham (editor, Wife of W.E.B. Du Bois) |
Umbra |
1963 |
1974 |
11 |
Black Arts Movement |
Black Arts Movement |
DanThomas Dent (editor), Calvin Hernton, David Henderson (associate editors),Rolland Snellings, Ishmael Reed |
Black Dialogue |
1964 |
1970 |
6 |
Black Arts Movement |
Black Arts Movement |
SF State University, Aubrey Labrie (editor), Amiri Baraka, Larry Neal, Ed Bullins, Nikki Giovanni |
Soul Book |
1964 |
1976 |
12 |
Black Arts Movement |
Black Arts Movement |
Larry Neal, Donald Freeman, Isaac Moore, Ernest Allen Jr., Carroll Holmes, Kenn M. Freeman, Bobb Hamilton |
African Forum |
1965 |
1967 |
2 |
House Organ |
House Organ |
American Society of African Culture, John A. Davis |
Journal of Black Poetry |
1966 |
1973 |
7 |
Black Arts Movement |
Black Arts Movement |
Joe Goncalves, Larry Neal, Askia Touré |
Black Theatre |
1968 |
1971 |
3 |
Black Arts Movement |
Black Arts Movement |
Ed Bullins |
Nommo |
1968 |
1972 |
4 |
Black Arts Movement |
Black Arts Movement |
UCLA |
The Cricket |
1968 |
1969 |
4 |
Black Arts Movement |
Black Arts Movement |
Amiri Baraka, Leroy Jones, A.B. Spellman |
Black Books Bullettin |
1970 |
1994 |
24 |
Black Arts Movement |
Black Arts Movement |
Haki Madhubuti, Sterling Plumpp |
Black World (formerly Negro Digest) |
1970 |
1976 |
6 |
Black Arts Movement |
Black Arts Movement |
Hoyt Fuller (editor), previously John H. Johnson |
Phase II, Journal of Black Art Renaissance |
1970 |
1971 |
1 |
Black Arts Movement |
Black Arts Movement |
Sarah Webster Fabio |
BANC: Black; Afro-American; Negro; Colored |
1970 |
1971 |
1 |
Scholarly Journal |
Scholarly Journal |
Fisk University |
Black Creation |
1970 |
1975 |
5 |
Scholarly Journal |
Scholarly Journal |
NYU, Fred Beauford (editor) |
Black Review |
1971 |
1972 |
1 |
Black Arts Movement |
Black Arts Movement |
Mel Watkins (editor) |
WATU: Journal of Black Poetry/Art |
1971 |
1971 |
0 |
Black Arts Movement |
Black Arts Movement |
Granville Walker |
Renaissance 2: A Journal of Afro-American Studies |
1971 |
1973 |
2 |
Scholarly Journal |
Scholarly Journal |
Afro-American Cultural Center, Yale University |
Yardbird Reader |
1972 |
1976 |
4 |
Black Arts Movement |
Black Arts Movement |
Ishmael Reed, Al Young, Cecil Brown |
Kitabu Cha Jua (Formerly Journal of Black Poetry) |
1974 |
1976 |
2 |
Black Arts Movement |
Black Arts Movement |
Joe Goncalves |