Harlem: Mecca of the New Negro
Survey Graphic, March 1925
Survey Graphic was the monthly illustrated number of Survey magazine, the premier journal of social work in America in the 1920s. In November of 1924, the Survey’s chief editor, Paul Kellogg, asked Alain Locke (then a professor of philosophy at Howard University) to design and edit a special issue devoted to the African American “Renaissance” underway in Harlem. Locke agreed, and the magazine that resulted was the first of several attempts to formulate a political and cultural representation of the New Negro and the Harlem community…
The New Negro
Making of Harlem
Black Workers and the City
The Tropics in New York
The Negro bringing gifts
Jazz At Home
Negro Art and America
The Negro Digs Up His Past
The Rhythm of Harlem
Ambushed in the City: The Grim Side of Harlem
The Double Task: The Struggle of Negro Women for Sex and Race Emancipation