The Opportunity Reader: Stories, Poetry, and Essays from the Urban League's Opportunity Magazine

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Dr. Sondra Kathryn Wilson Sondra K.

The Opportunity Reader

Name: The Opportunity Reader
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ISBN: 9780375753794

Stories, Poetry, and Essays from the Urban League's Opportunity Magazine

Dr. Sondra Kathryn Wilson, Sondra K., Sondra Kathryn Wilson , Editor

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Modern Library Inc
15 July 1999

Anthologies (non-poetry); Social discrimination; Ethnic studies

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.

By: Dr. Sondra Kathryn Wilson, Sondra K., Sondra Kathryn Wilson
Edited by: Editor
Imprint: Modern Library Inc
Country of Publication: United States
Dimensions: Height: 216mm, Width: 140mm, Spine: 32mm
Weight: 683g
ISBN: 9780375753794
ISBN 10: 0375753796
Pages: 576
Publication Date: 15 July 1999
Audience: General/trade , ELT Advanced
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

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 Modern Library's The Crisis Reader. She lives in New York City.