Survey Graphic the March 1925 Number Harlem Mecca of the New Negro
This reproduction of a groundbreaking issue of the  social-science magazineSurvey Graphiccontains 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.