The Messenger Reader: Stories, Poetry, and Essays from The Messenger Magazine (Modern Library (Paperback))

Robeson, Paul,Hurston, Zora Neale

ISBN 10: 037575539X / ISBN 13: 9780375755392

Published by Random House Publishing Group, 2000

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: The Messenger Reader: Stories, Poetry, and Essays from The Messenger Magazine (Modern Library (Paperback))
• Publisher: Random House Publishing Group
• Publication Date: 2000
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 037575539X
• ISBN 13: 9780375755392
• Binding: paperback
• Condition: Very Good

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Synopsis

The Messenger was the third most popular magazine of the Harlem Renaissance after The Crisis and Opportunity. 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.

About the Author

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.