LITTLE MAGAZINES BY TYPE:

STARTED 1961-1974
(THE BLACK ARTS MOVEMENT)

Black Arts Movement Magazines

LITTLE MAGAZINE YEAR STARTED YEAR ENDED YEARS EXTANT ASSOCIATED EDITORS/AUTHORS
Liberator 1961 1971 10 Daniel Watts, LeRoi Jones (later Amiri Baraka)
Umbra 1963 1975 12 DanThomas Dent (editor), Calvin Hernton, David Henderson (associate editors),Rolland Snellings, Ishmael Reed
Black Dialogue 1964 1970 6 SF State University, Aubrey Labrie (editor), Amiri Baraka, Larry Neal, Ed Bullins, Nikki Giovanni
Soul Book 1964 1976 12 Donald Freeman, Isaac Moore, Ernest Allen Jr., Carroll Holmes, Kenn M. Freeman, Bobb Hamilton
Journal of Black Poetry 1966 1973 7 Joe Goncalves
Nommo 1968 1972 4 UCLA
Black World (formerly Negro Digest) 1970 1976 6 Hoyt Fuller (editor), previously John H. Johnson
Phase II, Journal of Black Art Renaissance 1970 1971 1 Sarah Webster Fabio
Black Review 1971 1972 1 Mel Watkins (editor)
WATU: Journal of Black Poetry/Art 1971 1971 0 Granville Walker
Kitabu Cha Jua 1974 1976 2 Joe Goncalves


College Reviews
LITTLE MAGAZINE YEAR STARTED YEAR ENDED YEARS EXTANT ASSOCIATED EDITORS/AUTHORS
Dasein 1961 1969 8 Howard University


House Organ
LITTLE MAGAZINE YEAR STARTED YEAR ENDED YEARS EXTANT ASSOCIATED EDITORS/AUTHORS
African Forum 1965 1967 2 American Society of African Culture


Scholarly Journals
LITTLE MAGAZINE YEAR STARTED YEAR ENDED YEARS EXTANT ASSOCIATED EDITORS/AUTHORS
BANC: Black; Afro-American; Negro; Colored 1970 1971 1 Fisk University
Black Creation 1970 1975 5 NYU, Fred Beauford (editor)
Renaissance 2: A Journal of Afro-American Studies 1971 1973 2 Afro-American Cultural Center, Yale University


Socialist Journals
LITTLE MAGAZINE YEAR STARTED YEAR ENDED YEARS EXTANT ASSOCIATED EDITORS/AUTHORS
Freedomways 1961 1985 24 Shirley Graham (editor, Wife of W.E.B. Du Bois)


*Main source for little magazines: Johnson, Abby Arthur. Propaganda and Aesthetics: The Literary Politics of Afro-American Magazines in the Twentieth Century. University of Massachusetts Press, 1991.