The Opportunity Reader
Stories, Poetry, and Essays from the Urban League's Opportunity Magazine
$40.00
- Paperback
576 pages
- Release Date
15 July 1999
Summary
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 contrib…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780375753794 |
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| ISBN-10: | 0375753796 |
| Author: | Dr. Sondra Kathryn Wilson |
| Publisher: | Random House USA Inc |
| Imprint: | Modern Library Inc |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 576 |
| Release Date: | 15 July 1999 |
| Weight: | 683g |
| Dimensions: | 216mm x 140mm x 32mm |
| Series: | Modern Library (Paperback) |
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About The Author
Dr. Sondra Kathryn Wilson
Sondra Kathryn Wilson, Ph.D., is a researcher at Harvard University’s W. E. B. Du Bois Institute. She is the literary executor of the James Weldon Johnson estate, and the editor of several volumes of his work. She is also the editor of ModernLibrary’s The Crisis Reader. She lives in New York City.
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