Feb. 9 In Honor of Fire!!

Fire!!

1926

Produced by Wallace Thurman, Zora Neale Hurston, Aaron Douglas, John P. Davis, Richard Bruce Nugent, Gwendolyn Bennett, Lewis Grandison Alexander, Countee Cullen, and Langston Hughes.

“The publication was so named, according to Langston Hughes, ‘to burn up a lot of the old, dead conventional Negro-white ideas of the past … into a realization of the existence of the younger Negro writers and artists, and provide us with an outlet for publication not available in the limited pages of the small Negro magazines then existing.’” (see Wikipedia link)

For more information:

http://www2.oxfordaasc.com/article/opr/t0005/e0587#TheHarlemRenaissanceandtheFire!!Rebels.

http://issuu.com/carterevolutionofrevolution/docs/carter-mag_fire

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fire!!