Survey Graphic: Harlem Mecca of the New Negro

This reproduction of a groundbreaking issue of the social-science magazine Survey Graphic contains some of the seminal writings of the Harlem Renaissance. The magazine was compiled and edited by Alain Locke, a pioneering black Rhodes scholar and graduate of Harvard, Oxford, and Berlin Universities who later taught at Howard University. Locke's triumphant essay "Enter the New Negro" articulates the political, scientific, and artistic strivings of the Afro-American in Harlem. Other contributions include Countee Cullen's eternal poem "Heritage," a short story by W.E.B. Du Bois, and historian Arturo Schomburg's ancestral call to arms, "The Negro Digs Up His Past." These writings, and the dignified portraits of famous and nonfamous Negroes by German artist Winold Reiss, make this document a timeless testimony to black achievement. --Eugene Holley, Jr.