[AFRICAN AMERICANA] CARTER, Elmer Anderson (editor); LOCKE, Alain, Carl Van Vechten, et al. (contributors)

Opportunity: Journal of Negro Life - Vol.XVIII, No.2 (February, 1940)

New York: National Urban League, 1940. First Edition. Slim quarto (28cm); photo-illustrated wrappers, stapled; pp.[33]-64; illus. Wrappers dust-soiled, nearly detached at spine, with a small piece of sticker residue to lower front wrapper, and rubber-stamp of the Knoxville College Library at upper front wrapper and upper margin of p.41; contents complete; Good.

Complete issue of this sociological and literary journal produced by the National Urban League. Published between 1923-1949, Opportunity was significant for fostering many of the literary and artistic voices of the Harlem Renaissance period, as well as printing academic articles on the various social problems facing African Americans. Contents include contributions by Elmer Carter, Katharine F. Lenroot, Carl Van Vechten, Alain Locke, John Dannenfelser, T.A. Daley, Vincent Browne, and others. DANKY 4635.

Price: $150.00

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