LITTLE MAGAZINES BY TYPE:

STARTED 1905-1935
(THE HARLEM RENAISSANCE)

Harlem Renaissance Magazines

LITTLE MAGAZINE YEAR STARTED YEAR ENDED YEARS EXTANT ASSOCIATED EDITORS/AUTHORS
Moon Illustrated Weekly 1905 1906 1 W.E.B. Du Bois
Horizon 1907 1910 3 W.E.B. Du Bois
Opportunity 1923 1949 26 Charles S. Johnson
Fire!! 1926 1926 0 Wallace Thurman (editor), Langston Hughes, Zora Neale Hurston
Black Opals 1927 1928 1 Arthur Fauset (editor)
Caroline Magazine 1927 1929 2 Eulalie Spence
Harlem 1928 1928 0 Wallace Thurman (editor)
Saturday Evening Quill 1928 1930 2 Boston Quill Club, Eugene Gordon
Metropolitan 1935 1935 0 Jessie Fauset, Rudolph Fisher

Black Popular Magazines

LITTLE MAGAZINE YEAR STARTED YEAR ENDED YEARS EXTANT TYPE ASSOCIATED EDITORS/AUTHORS
Alexander's Magazine 1905 1909 4 Uplift
Champion 1916 1917 1 Fine Arts Fenton Johnson (editor)
New Era 1916 1916 0 Uplift Pauline Hopkins (editor)
Half-Century Magazine 1916 1925 9 Women's Magazine
Competitor 1920 1921 1 Uplift
Reflexus 1925 1925 0 Black Popular Journal Richard L. Jones
Spokesman 1925 1926 1 Uplift
American Life Magazine 1926 1928 2 Black Popular Journal
Bronzeman 1929 1933 4 Pulp
Abbott's Monthly 1930 1933 3 Pulp Himes, Hughes, Wright

College Reviews

LITTLE MAGAZINE YEAR STARTED YEAR ENDED YEARS EXTANT ASSOCIATED EDITORS/AUTHORS
Stylus 1916 1947 31 Howard University / Alain Locke

House Organs

LITTLE MAGAZINE YEAR STARTED YEAR ENDED YEARS EXTANT ASSOCIATED EDITORS/AUTHORS
The Crisis 1910 Ongoing 108+ NAACP / W.E.B. Du Bois

Scholarly Journal

LITTLE MAGAZINE YEAR STARTED YEAR ENDED YEARS EXTANT ASSOCIATED EDITORS/AUTHORS
Race 1935 1936 1 Langston Hughes

Socialist Journals

LITTLE MAGAZINE YEAR STARTED YEAR ENDED YEARS EXTANT ASSOCIATED EDITORS/AUTHORS
Messenger 1917 1928 11 A. Philip Randolph, Chandler Owen
Challenge and New Challenge 1934 1937 3 Dorothy West, Richard Wright

Literary Arts (Special Issue)

LITTLE MAGAZINE YEAR STARTED YEAR ENDED YEARS EXTANT ASSOCIATED EDITORS/AUTHORS
Survey Graphic 1925 1925 0 Alain Locke (Guest editor)
Palms 1926 1926 0 Countee Cullen (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 Massachusetts Press, 1991.