![]() Cover Page of The Voice of the Negro Volume III, April 1906. Atlanta: Hertel, Jenkins, and Company, 1906 | |
Editor | John W. E. Bowen, Sr. and Jesse Max Barber |
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Frequency | Monthly |
Publisher | J.L. Nichols and Company (Jan. 1904 – Apr. 1904)
Hertel, Jenkins, and Company (May 1904 – July 1906) Voice Publishing Company (Aug. 1906 – Oct. 1907) |
First issue | 1904 |
Country | United States |
Based in | Atlanta, Georgia (Jan. 1904 – July 1906) Chicago, Illinois (Aug. 1906 – Oct. 1907) |
Language | English |
The Voice of the Negro was a literary periodical aimed at a national audience of African Americans which was published from 1904 to 1907.[1][2][3] It was created in Atlanta, Georgia in June 1904 by Austin N. Jenkins, the white manager of the publishing company J. L. Nichols and Company. He gave full control of the magazine to the Black editors John W. E. Bowen, Sr. and Jesse Max Barber.
It relocated to Chicago following the Atlanta Race Riot of September 1906, and ceased publication in 1907. The periodical published writing by Booker T. Washington, as well as work by a younger generation of Black activists and intellectuals: W. E. B. Du Bois, John Hope, Kelly Miller, Mary Church Terrell, and William Pickens. It featured poetry by James D. Corrothers, Georgia Douglas Johnson, and Paul Laurence Dunbar.