POPULAR FRONTS: NEGRO STORY MAGAZINE AND THE AFRICAN AMERICAN LITERARY RESPONSE TO WORLD WAR II. |
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Mullen, B.
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1/1/96
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magazines
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African American Review
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30(1) p.5-15
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African American
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Recounts the history of Negro Story, the leftist Chicago literary periodical edited during 1944-46 by Alice C. Browning and Fern Gayden that launched the careers of several prominent black writers. The magazinemaintained a tradition of black literary radicalism even as it partly acceded to government pressure to observe a patriotic quietism during World War II.
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