(LITERATURE AND POETRY PERIODICALS) The Voice of the Negro

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(LITERATURE AND POETRY--PERIODICALS.) The Voice of the Negro. Volume 1, Number 1--Volume 1, Number 12, the entire first year. 4to's, all original covers present, bound in modern black cloth with black morocco label on the spine, lettered in gilt. First issue cover with the fore-edge with japan paper restoration; otherwise all issues in excellent condition. Atlanta: J.L. Nichols and Co. 1904

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the entire first year of this important periodical, edited by Max Barber (1878-1949), with occasional help from Pauline Hopkins and Kelly Miller. The Voice was the most important black periodical in the country with a circulation of 15,000 by 1906. The main vehicle for political and social conversation in the black community, it was published in Atlanta until 1906. Max Barber ran afoul of the city "fathers" and local white politicians after he wrote a scathing article on the 1906 Atlanta Riot that had taken place in the summer. Barber was threatened by the Klan and fled for his life. He went to Chicago where he tried to keep the Voice afloat, but his radicalism had angered Booker T. Washington and other "don't rock the boat" conservative minded blacks; and the Voice was silenced in 1907. Washington, also made it difficult for Barber to find work. Max Barber, one of the major figures of the Niagara Movement, wound up going to dental school in Philadelphia in order to survive.