The Emergence of the Harlem Renaissance

African American Literary Activity on the Eve of the Harlem Renaissance
* "The Negro in Literature and Art." American Academy of Political and Social Science, Annals 49 (1913), W.E.B. Du Bois * "The Negro Renaissance." Southern Workman 59 (1930), Lloyd Morris * "Some Things Negroes Need To Do." Southern Workman 51 (1922), Carter G. Woodson * "Negro Literature for Negro Pupils." Southern Workman 51 (1922), Alice Dunbar-Nelson * "Negro Life and Its Poets." Opportunity 1 (1923) * "Review of Cane by Jean Toomer." Opportunity 1 (1923), Montgomery Gregory * "The Younger Literary Movement." Crisis 27 (1924), W.E.B. Du Bois and Alain Locke * "The New Generation." Opportunity 2 (1924) * "A Pair of Youthful Negro Poets." Southern Workman 53 (1924), Robert T. Kerlin * "The Debut of the Younger School of Negro Writers." Opportunity 2 (1924) * "The Spirit of Phyllis Wheatley: A Review of There Is Confusion by Jessie Redmon Fauset." Opportunity 2 (1924), Montgomery Gregory * "The Negro in Literature." Crisis28 (1924), William Stanley Braithwaite * "Fall Books." Crisis 29 (1924), W.E.B. Du Bois * "Black Verse." Opportunity 2 (1924), Frank S. Horne * "The Fire in the Flintby Walter White." Opportunity 2 (1924), a Review by Charles S. Johnson * "Remarks by Grant Overton re: The Fire in the Flint at Library, Nov. 6, 1924" (1924) * "Reflections on O'Neill's Plays." Opportunity 2 (1924), Paul Robeson * "Some Books of 1924." Opportunity 3 (1925), Charles S. Johnson * "The Significance of Jean Toomer." Opportunity3 (1925), Gorham B. Munson * "American Literary Tradition and the Negro." Modern Quarterly 3 (1926), Alain Locke * "The Negro Renaissance." Century March (1926), Carl Van Doren
Survey Graphic, March 1925
"Harlem: Mecca of the New Negro." (March, 1925)
Carl Van Vechten,Nigger Heaven, 1926
(New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1926)
Promotional Activities of Black Periodicals
1925 Opportunity Literary Contests
"Opportunity Literary Contest." Opportunity 2 (1924) * "An Opportunity for Negro Writers." Opportunity 2 (1924) * "Opportunity's Literary Prize Contest Awards." Opportunity 2 (1924) * "Opportunity's Prize Contest." Opportunity 2 (1924) * "The Last Warning." Opportunity 2 (1924) * "The Contest." Opportunity 3 (1925) * "Out of the Shadow." Opportunity 3 (1925) * Contest Awards Opportunity 3 (1925)Langston Hughes. "The Weary Blues" * Countee Cullen. "To One Who Said Me Nay" * John Matheus. "Fog" * Helene Johnson. "Trees at Night" * G.D. Lipscomb. "Frances: A Play in One Act" * Gustavus Adolphus Stewart. "My Fellow Traveller" * Zora Neale Hurston. "Spunk" * Sterling Brown. "Roland Hayes" * Langston Hughes. "America" * Clarissa M. Scott. "Solace" * "The Opportunity Dinner." Opportunity 3 (1925) * "The Prize Winners." Opportunity 3 (1925) * "Pot-Pourri: A Negro Renaissance." Opportunity 3 (1925) * "A Point of View: An Opportunity Dinner Reaction." Opportunity 3 (1925), Brenda Ray Moryck
The 1926 Opportunity Literary Contest"The Contest." Opportunity 3 (1925) * "Opportunity's Second Annual Contest for Negro Writers Offers $1000.00 in Prizes." Opportunity 3 (1925) * "The Contest." Opportunity 4 (1926) * "A Contest Number." Opportunity 4 (1926) * "The Judges and the Entries." Opportunity 4 (1926) * Contest Awards Opportunity 4 (June 1926) * Arna Bontemps. "Golgotha Is a Mountain" * Arthur Huff Fauset. "Symphonesque" * Frank H. Wilson. "Sugar Cain" * Lucy Ariel Williams. "Northboun'" * "The Kingdom of Art." Opportunity 4 (1926), John Macy * "The Awards Dinner." Opportunity 4 (1926) * "Our Prize Winners and What They Say of Themselves." Opportunity 4 (1926)
The 1927 Opportunity Literary Contest"The Third Opportunity Contest." Opportunity 4 (1926) * "Opportunity's Third Annual Contest for Negro Writers Offers $1000.00 in Prizes." Opportunity 4 (1926) * "The Contest." Opportunity 5 (1927) * Contest Awards Opportunity 5 (1927) * Arna Bontemps. "The Return" * Sterling A. Brown. "When De Saints Go Ma'ching Home" * Helene Johnson. "Summer Matures" * Georgia Douglas Johnson. "Plumes" * "The Contest Spotlight." Opportunity 5 (1927) * Eugene Gordon. "The Opportunity Dinner: An Impression." Opportunity 5 (1927) * "The Opportunity Contest." Opportunity5 (1927)
The 1932 Opportunity Contest
"An Opportunity Award." Opportunity 9 (1931) * "The New Opportunity Awards." Opportunity 9 (1931) * "Essays and Stories." Opportunity 9 (1931) * "The Judges." Opportunity 10 (1932) * "The Contest." Opportunity 10 (1932) * "The Opportunity Award." Opportunity 10 (1932) * "Charles W. Cranford: Winner of Opportunity Award." Opportunity 10 (1932)
The 1923 Crisis Prize
"Truth and Beauty." Crisis 25 (1922) 8 "The Prize Story Competition." Crisis 26 (1923), Jessie Faucet * "To a Wild Rose." Crisis 26 (1923), Ottie B. Graham
The 1925 Crisis Prize
"The Amy Spingarn Prizes." Crisis 28 (1924), Amy E. Spingarn * "The Amy Spingarn Prizes in Literature and Art." Crisis 28 (1924) * "To Encourage Negro Art." Crisis 29 (1924) * "The Amy Spingarn Prizes in Literature and Art." Crisis 29 (1924) * "About the Short Story." Crisis 29 (1924), Mark Seyboldt * "Play-Writing." Crisis 29 (1925), Mark Seyboldt * "The New Crisis." Crisis 30 (1925) * "The Amy Spingarn Prizes." Crisis 30 (1925) * "Krigwa." Crisis 30 (1925)
The 1926 Crisis Prize
"Krigwa, 1926." Crisis 31 (November, 1925) (December, 1925) (January 1926), Crisis 32 (1926) * "Prizes." Crisis 32 (1926) * "For a Prize Novel, $1000." Crisis 31 (1926)
The 1927 Crisis Prize"Krigwa, 1927." Crisis 33 (January, 1927) (February, 1927), Crisis 34 (1927) * W.E.B. Du Bois. "Economic Prizes." Crisis 36 (1929)
The Du Bois Literary Prize
"The Du Bois Literary Prize." Crisis 38 (1931) *"The Donor of the Du Bois Literary Prize: An Autobiography." Crisis 38 (1931) * "Proposed Rules of the Competition." Crisis 38 (1931) * "To Publishers." Crisi 38 (1931) * Du Bois Literary Prize." Crisis 40 (1933)