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Opportunity: A Journal for Negro Life, founded by Charles S. Johnson and published monthly by the National Urban League from 1923 until 1949, was one of the first national periodicals by-and-for African Americans. In the pages of this invaluable Harem Renaissance resource are articles, essays, short stories, poems, plays, and visual art by legendary artists including Langston Hughes, Zora Neale Hurston, Aaron Douglas, Dorothy West, and Countee Cullen.<br/><br/>Included in this January 1925 issue:<br/>Cover art by Winold Reiss<br/>Poems by Esther Popel, Gwendolyn Bennett, Countee Cullen<br/>A story by Isabella Eberhardt, translated by Edna Worthley Underwood<br/>Articles by Herbert Adulphus Miller, Frederick J. Libby, Eugene Kinckle Jones, Karl F. Phillips<br/>Reviews of “Society and Its Problems’ and “Negro Elementary School Teacher in West Virginia”