Opportunity Reader Stories, Poetry, and Essays from the Urban League's Opportunity Magazine

Name: Opportunity Reader Stories, Poetry, and Essays from the Urban League's Opportunity Magazine
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ISBN: 9780375753794

ISBN-10: 0375753796

ISBN-13: 9780375753794

Edition: 1999

Authors: Sondra Kathryn Wilson

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Modern Library Harlem Renaissance In 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.P.'s Crisis magazine, one of the vehicles that drove the art and literature of the Harlem Renaissance. As a way of attracting writers such as Langston Hughes and Zora Neale Hurston, Johnson conducted literary contests that were largely funded by Casper Holstein, the infamous Harlem numbers gangster, who contributed several essays in addition to money. Dorothy West, Nella Larsen, and Arthur Schomburg were among Opportunity's contributors. Many of the pieces included in The Opportunity…

Book details

List price: $27.00
Copyright year: 1999
Publisher: Random House Publishing Group
Publication date: 6/29/1999
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 576
Size: 5.00" wide x 7.76" long x 1.26" tall
Weight: 1.474
Language: English

Sondra Kathryn Wilson is the literary executor of James Weldon Johnson & the editor of "The Crisis Reader," "The Opportunity Reader," & "The Messenger Reader." She lives in Oak Bluffs, Massachusetts.