LITTLE MAGAZINES BY TYPE:

STARTED 1937-1958
(THE INDIGNANT GENERATION)

Indignant Generation Magazines

LITTLE MAGAZINE YEAR STARTED YEAR ENDED YEARS EXTANT ASSOCIATED EDITORS/AUTHORS
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
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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 Massachusetts Press, 1991.