| 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 |