Charles W. Chesnutt to Editor of the Survey [Paul Underwood Kellogg], 17 March 1925
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9719 Lamont Ave.,
March 17, 1925
Editor The Survey,
112 E. 19th St.,
New York.
Dear Sir:
I have read with great interest and pleasure your special number on "Harlem -- Mecca of The New Negro."1 It is in line with the always liberal and indeed generous policy of your magazine. It not only tells the Negro's story, but permits him to tell it himself. It is, in effect, an illuminating discussion of the whole race problem in the United States, which every American man and woman, white or colored, can read with profit.
Yours sincerely,Correspondent: Paul Underwood Kellogg (1879–1958) was a White journalist and social justice activist based in New York and editor of The Survey, a magazine that combined sociological research and journalism (1912–1952).
1. The special issue of Survey Graphic of March 1, 1925 was simply called "Harlem," but advertised in earlier issues as "Harlem: A Mecca of the New Negro." It included essays, poetry, and illustrations by many writers and artists associated with the Harlem Renaissance and the NAACP, including Chesnutt correspondents W. E. B. Du Bois (1868–1963), James Weldon Johnson (1871–1938), Walter F. White (1893–1955), and Kelly Miller (1863–1939). [back]
