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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. Labor activist A. Philip Randolph and economist Chandler Owen started the magazine in 1917 to advance the cause of socialism to the black masses. They believed that a socialist society was the only one that would be free from racism.
The socialist ideology of The Messenger "the only magazine of scientific radicalism in the world published by Negroes," was reflected in the pieces and authors published in its pages. The Messenger Reader contains poetry, stories, and essays from Paul Robeson, Zora Neale Hurston, Wallace Thurman, and Dorothy West.
The Messenger Reader, will be a welcome addition to the critically acclaimed Modern Library Harlem Renaissance series.
The socialist ideology of The Messenger "the only magazine of scientific radicalism in the world published by Negroes," was reflected in the pieces and authors published in its pages. The Messenger Reader contains poetry, stories, and essays from Paul Robeson, Zora Neale Hurston, Wallace Thurman, and Dorothy West.
The Messenger Reader, will be a welcome addition to the critically acclaimed Modern Library Harlem Renaissance series.
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Unlike the NAACP's Crisis and the Urban League's Opportunity, The Messenger--the literary arm of legendary labor leaders A. Philip Randolph and Chandler Owen--was not linked with any African American civil rights organization. The two men created the publication after they were fired from their hotel jobs for questioning unfair union practices. Overtly socialist in nature, The Messenger ran from 1917 to 1928 and claimed to be "the only magazine of scientific radicalism in the world published by Negroes." As this wide-ranging anthology shows, the journal practiced equal-opportunity criticism. Owen's "Failure of Negro Leadership" takes issue with W.E.B. Du Bois, James Weldon Johnson, and Archibald Grimke for their advocacy of Negro participation in World War I. Randolph's "Reply to Marcus Garvey" and "The Negro in Politics" expose the philosophical flaws of the famous race leader's movement and express a lack of faith in the U.S. two-party political system. But the real gems of this reader lie in its impressive array of poetry, fiction, and plays from such luminaries as Langston Hughes, Claude McKay, and Zora Neale Hurston. As editor Sondra Kathryn Wilson writes, the magazine "unequivocally made socialistic economics and politics a priority of culture." --Eugene Holley Jr.
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Sondra Katherine Wilson, Ph.D. is a researcher at Harvard University's W. E. B. Du Bois Institute. She is the executor of the James Weldon Johnson estate and the editor of several volumes of his work. She is also the editor of the Modern Library's The Crisis Reader and The Opportunity Reader. She lives in New York City.
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- PublisherRandom House Publishing Group
- Publication date2000
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- ISBN 13 9780375755392
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- Number of pages448
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