The Messenger Reader: Stories, Poetry, and Essays from the Messenger Magazine

The Messenger Reader: Stories, Poetry, and Essays from the Messenger Magazine - Paperback

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The Messenger Reader: Stories, Poetry, and Essays from the Messenger Magazine - Paperback

The Messenger Reader: Stories, Poetry, and Essays from the Messenger Magazine - Paperback

by Paul Robeson , Zora Neale Hurston
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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.

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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.
ISBN9780375755392
Author Paul Robeson , Zora Neale Hurston
PublisherModern Library
GenreLiterature
FormatPaperback
PublishedAugust 2005
LanguageENG- English
Pages448
Weight1.0 lb
Target AudienceAdults
Print SizeStandard Print

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The Messenger Reader: Stories, Poetry, and Essays from the Messenger Magazine - Paperback

By Paul Robeson and Zora Neale Hurston
About Paul Robeson
PAUL ROBESON, Jr., is a freelance journalist, translator, and highly regarded lecturer on American and Russian history. He served as a personal aide to his father for over twenty years and has been a civil rights activist since the 1940s. He is the owner and archivist of the Paul Robeson and Eslanda Robeson Collection, which consists of over 50,000 items, including thousands of photographs and hundreds of audio recordings.
About Zora Neale Hurston
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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