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The Messenger
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The Messenger
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The Messenger was a monthly that was published between 1917 and 1928. It was noted for its editorials, especially those by A. Phillip Randolph and Chandler Owen; and occasional literature by the likes of Langston Hughes, Countee Cullen, Claude McKay, and Zora Neale Hurston.
It characterized itself as the "first publication to recognize the Negro problem as fundamentally a labor problem." It featured fashion-plate covers and society photographs which dominated until 1926. Afterwards, it returned to featuring muscular workers on the cover and became the official organ of Randolph's Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters. The Messenger was also noted for its wide appeal. |
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