Survey Graphic. Volume LIII, No. 11, March 1 1925. Harlem: Mecca of the new negro

Survey Graphic was a monthly illustrated supplement to The Survey, a 1920s publication focused on social issues and reform. This special issue of Survey Graphic, designed and edited by Alain Locke, was devoted to the thriving literary and artistic movement underway in Harlem and helped establish Harlem’s reputation as a Black mecca. Locke states, “If we were to offer a symbol of what Harlem has come to mean in the short span of twenty years it would be another statue of liberty on the landward side of New York.”

The work that Locke put into this issue formed the nucleus of The New Negro, a landmark anthology of Black literature that came to be seen as the definitive text of the Harlem Renaissance.