The Brownies' Book January 1920: Vol. 1 No. 1 (Subscription to the Harlem Renais For Sale

✨ Product Description ✨📖 The Brownies’ Book — Issue Overview (Jan 1920–Dec 1921)The Brownies’ Book
📚 About The Brownies’ BookThe Brownies’ Book was the first magazine created specifically to entertain, educate, and empower African American children. It was co-founded by W.E.B. Du Bois, Jessie Redmon Fauset, and August Granville Dill. The publication ran monthly from January 1920 through December 1921 and featured leading voices of the Harlem Renaissance, including Langston Hughes and James Weldon Johnson, along with visual artists such as Laura Wheeler Waring.
🖼️ Featured Content in This IssueCover Picture: Photograph by BatteyFrontispiece: The Empress ZaouditouPumpkin Land: A Story by Peggy Poe, illustrated by Hilda WilkinsonThe Wishing Game: A Poem by Annette BrowneThe Origin of White Folks: A Poem by Annie Virginia CulbertsonA Boy Scout Troop of Philadelphia: A PictureOver the Ocean Wave: A Geography Story (Illustrated)Whole Duty of Children: Poem reprinted from Robert Louis StevensonSome Little Friends of Ours: Nine PicturesThe Judge / The JuryWaiting for a Howard-Fisk Football Game: A PictureCelebrating Baby Week at Tuskegee: A PictureThe Ouija Board: A Story by Edna May HarroldPlaytime: Nursery rhyme “Hark, Hark, the Dogs Do Bark” with dance by Carriebel B. Cole and music by FarwellGirls' School in Abyssinia; Y.W.C.A. Girls in New York City: PicturesAs the Crow Flies / The Grown-Ups' CornerChildren in the Silent Protest Parade in New York CityKaty Ferguson: A True StoryLittle People of the MonthAfter School: Poem by Jessie Fauset, drawings by Laura Wheeler WaringGyp: A Fairy Story by A.T. KilpatrickThe Boy's Answer by A.U. CraigPoems Illustrated: “Recruit” (Georgia Johnson), “The Tale of a Kitten” (James Weldon Johnson), “The Happy Quail” (William T. Wallace), “Singing” (Robert Louis Stevenson), “Dedication” (Jessie Fauset)
🌍 Cultural ImportanceThis issue reflects the educational, cultural, and artistic mission of The Brownies’ Book, blending stories, poems, illustrations, and real-life historical references to celebrate African American childhood, identity, and creativity during the Harlem Renaissance.