<I>Opportunity Journal of Negro Life</I>
date: label: Date
content: June 1930
name: label: Published by
content: Opportunity Journal of Negro Life, American, 1923 - 1949
label: Published by
content: National Urban League, American, founded 1910
label: Edited by
content: Charles S. Johnson, American, 1893 - 1956
label: Illustrated by
content: Elmer Simms Campbell, American, 1906 - 1971
label: Subject of
content: Langston Hughes, American, 1902 - 1967
label: Subject of
content: Claude McKay, Jamaican American, 1889 - 1948
notes: label: Description
content: The June 1930 issue of Opportunity Journal of Negro Life magazine. The front cover has an abstract design by Elmer Simms Campbell depicting a mask and two quadrupeds in black, white and grey tones. Across the top is a wide white margin with [OPPORTUNITY/ JOURNAL OF NEGRO LIFE]. There are 32 pages total, including. The interior content begins with the National Urban League conference program on page 166. The last numbered page is 189, which includes the feature “Who’s Who” with a list of notable individuals. Also included are editorials, poems by Langston Hughes, photographs, and articles on labor, European history, education, and psychology. One of the editorials quotes the Claude McKay poem “The Lynching” and addresses the lynchings and violence in Sherman, Texas. The back cover has two advertisements, one for Dunbar National Bank and the other Dobbins Coal Company.
place: label: Place printed
content: New York City, New York County, New York, United States, North and Central America
label: Place depicted
content: Sherman, Grayson County, Texas, United States, North and Central America
topic: label: Topic
content: African American
label: Topic
content: Art
label: Topic
content: Black Press
label: Topic
content: Civil Rights
label: Topic
content: Education
label: Topic
content: Labor
label: Topic
content: Literature
label: Topic
content: Lynching
label: Topic
content: Mass media
label: Topic
content: Poetry
label: Topic
content: Race riots
label: Topic
content: U.S. History, 1919-1933
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content: National Museum of African American History and Culture Collection
label: Classification
content: Books and Published Materials
label: Movement
content: Harlem Renaissance (New Negro Movement)
label: Exhibition
content: Making a Way Out of No Way
label: On View
content: NMAAHC (1400 Constitution Ave NW), National Mall Location, Community/Third Floor, 3 050
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Collection of the Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture, Gift of Vicki Gold Levi
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of African American History and Culture
identifier: label: Object number
content: 2013.223.53
objectType: label: Type
content: magazines (periodicals)
objectRights: label: Restrictions & Rights
content: Public domain
label: Restrictions & Rights
content: Proper usage is the responsibility of the user.
physicalDescription: label: Medium
content: ink on paper and metal
label: Dimensions
content: H x W: 11 × 8 in. (27.9 × 20.3 cm)