Title
Negro Digest: A Magazine of Negro Comment
Coverage
Chicago
Publisher
Negro Digest Publishing Co.
Date
November 1942–October 1943
Subject
Volume 1, numbers 1–12
Description
In 1942, John Harold Johnson borrowed $500 to start Negro Digest with the intention of creating the Black community’s alternative to Reader’s Digest, but with an important difference: it “spoke to an audience that was angry, disillusioned and disappointed. You couldn’t digest the world without digesting the frustration and anger.” Circulation increased dramatically after a contribution by First Lady Eleanor Roosevelt to a series entitled “If I Were a Negro.”