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The Opportunity Reader: Stories, Poetry, and Essays from the Urban League's Opportunity Magazine
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Bibliographic Detail
Publisher
Modern Library
Publication date
June 29, 1999
Pages
576
Binding
Paperback
Book category
Adult Non-Fiction
ISBN-13
9780375753794
ISBN-10
0375753796
Dimensions
1.25 by 5 by 7.75 in.
Weight
1 lbs.
Original list price
$27.00
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Summaries and Reviews
Summary
An extraordinary collection of short fiction, poetry, essays, and plays from the Urban League's Opportunity magazine celebrates the contributions of the Harlem Renaissance in works by Zora Neale Hurston, Dorothy West, Nella Larsen, Langston Hughes, and Countee Cullen, among others. Original. 12,500 first printing.
Amazon.com description: Product Description: 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 Reader have not been seen since their publication in the magazine, whose motto was "Not alms, but opportunity."
The fertile artistic period now known as the Harlem Renaissance (1920-1930) gave birth to many of the world-renowned masters of black literature and is the model for today's renaissance of black writers.
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 Reader have not been seen since their publication in the magazine, whose motto was "Not alms, but opportunity."
The fertile artistic period now known as the Harlem Renaissance (1920-1930) gave birth to many of the world-renowned masters of black literature and is the model for today's renaissance of black writers.
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