Reviews of the Survey Graphic Harlem Number

<BODY background="paper.gif" link="#23238e"> <h1><center>Reviews of the Survey Graphic Harlem Number</h1></center> <HR> <center>Click on an icon to view a full-size image.</center> <HR WIDTH=60% ALIGN=center> <a href="surgrrev.jpg"><img height=153 width=109 src="surgrrev.gif"></a> <hr> <h1><center>What they say of the Harlem Number <a href="#note">*</a></center></h1> <hr> <p>".... one of the few fine things of the year."-- PAUL GREEN, <i>The Reviewer</i>, Chapel Hill, N. C. <p>A real service to both peoples. --FLORINA LASKER, department of immigrant aid, Council of Jewish Women. <p>"My congratulations on an excellent piece of work. It is full of valuable stuff. --H. L. MENCKEN, editor <i>The American Mercury</i>. <p>"I think it is one of the most important things in many years in American periodical literature."-- JULIAN W. MACK, <i>Judge U. S. Circuit Court</i>. <p>"The Harlem number is superb; I congratulate you sincerely on this picture of the almost unparalleled achievement of a race."--J. E. SPINGARN, <i>New York</i>. <p>"Accept my heartiest congratulations on the Harlem number.... a human document of great value."-- WILL W. ALEXANDER, <i>director Commission on Interracial Cooperation, Atlanta</i>. <p>"A most fertile, meaty, fascinating magazine it is! You have done a number worthy of its subject."-- WALDO FRANK, <i>author of Holiday</i>. <p>"Admirably done and consistently well written from end to end . . . a swing to it which carries the reader right through."--BRUNO LASKER, <i>Conference on Christian Way of Life</i>. <p>".... It seems to me full of interesting reading matter and will probably prove very helpful to the students interested in the development of the Negro in America."--MARY COOKE BRANCH MUNFORD, <i>Richmond, Va</i>. <p>"I took the Survey Graphic home last night and read it with the utmost interest. This is one of the most fascinating achievements in real editing that I have ever examined."--ALBERT SHAW, <i>editor The American Review of Reviews</i>. <p>".... I was delighted... In no matter what field an artist labors, to my mind one of the most vital and serious themes America offers him today is the Negro." --J. S. STRIBLING, <i>author of Birthright</i>. <p>".... In contemporary interest, fundamental treatment and inherent quality.... far and away the best number you ever got out." --HERBERT ADOLPHUS MILLER, <i>former chief division of immigrant heritages, Carnegie Corporation</i>. <p>"Congratulations on the Harlem number. The Graphic surely must be considered one of the most important and interesting achievements in contemporary journalism." --FRANK TANNENBAUM, <i>author of Darker Phases of the South</i>. <p>"Not only every leader, but also every member of the colored race in the Southern states, will do well to read the plain statement of fact about conditions surrounding that race in New York as presented by Winthrop D. Lane in Survey Graphic."--<i>Memphis Commercial Appeal</i>. <p>"The Harlem issue of Survey Graphic seems to me an amazing performance. I have read it with delight and am carefully preserving it among my most valued American documents."--CARL VAN DOREN, <i>literary editor The Century</i>. <p>".... I am filing [it] with my cherished papers on the Negro. I think you have achieved an extraordinary range in this brochure--with its exhibition of the root and branch and present flower of Negro culture."-- JEAN K MACKENZIE, <i>author of An African Trail</i>. <p>"The effort you have made to present partially the life of the race as it strikes you in Harlem is commendable. Your motive is of the nature that will bring about the better understanding that the world needs." --MARCUS GARVEY. <p>"....the Harlem issue of the Survey Graphic is a splendid thing. There is no more significant transition in America today than that of the Negro from the position of an awakening chattel to that of full manhood, economically, politically, socially and artistically. -- CLEMENT WOOD, <i>author of Nigger</i>. <p>"The current issue of Survey Graphic is a notable contribution to the fact and philosophy of a democratic America. For the first time it brings together an interpretation of this new Negro from the standpoint of his poetry, his music, his gifts of temperament and philosophy and character toward the making of an American democracy. The march of his race has hurdled ages of the world's progress in half a century; he stands even with the present."--<i>The Nation</i>. <p>"My own experience with native Africans in Kenya made me feel that this race even under the most primitive conditions possesses a very rare spiritual quality, a quality which may well act as a leavening influence on much that is barbaric amongst us Teutons and Celts, if its inheritors can once find a refuge (such as seems to be afforded by Harlem) where they may, at least, be safe from persecution and exploitation. A number like this one of The Survey could hardly fail, I should think, to inspire this long-suffering, sweetnatured people to make even further efforts toward development and emancipation."--LLEWELYN POWYS, <i>author of Black Laughter</i>. <hr> <a name="note">* As published in <i>Survey Graphic</i>, Volume 7, no. 2 (May 1925)</a> <hr> <h4>The <i>Survey Graphic</i> Harlem Number (March 1925)</h4> <a href="index.html"><b>Return to Cover Page</b></a> <script src="http://www.lib.virginia.edu/libtools.js" type="text/javascript"></script></BODY>