The Messenger was the third most popular magazine of the Harlem Renaissance after The Crisis andOpportunity. Unlike the other two magazines, The Messenger was not tied to a civil rights organization.
Modern Library Harlem RenaissanceIn 1923, the Urban League's Opportunity magazine made its first appearance. Spearheaded by the noted sociologist Charles S. Johnson, it became, along with the N.A.A.C.
After its start in 1910, The Crisis: A Record of the Darker Races magazine became the major outlet for works by African American writers and intellectuals. In 1920, Langston Hughes's poem "The Negro S
The Hotel Theresa is the stuff of legend, and one of the New York landmarks that established Harlem as a mecca of black culture. Meet Me at the Theresa is the first book devoted to the fabulous story
Traces the history of the famous Harlem hotel between 1940 and 1970, sharing first-hand accounts that document the patronages of such individuals as Langston Hughes, Fidel Castro, and Josephine Baker.
Here is, to quote the eminent historian Nathan Irvin Huggins, ?one of the finest American autobiographies written in this century.” Born in 1871 in Jacksonville, Florida, James Weldon Johnson began hi
The autobiography of the celebrated African American writer and civil rights activist Published just four years before his death in 1938, James Weldon JohnsonA's autobiography is a fascinating portr
