Negro Story
The Negro Story: A Magazine for All Americans
Picture courtesy of Slavery and the Abolitionist Movement
The Negro Story was a bi-monthly magazine that was first published in 1944, in Chicago. It was created for the express purpose of dispelling myths about African-Americans (Sylvester, 2006). Negro Story mainly published short stories, but it also contained book reviews and interesting facts about people, both black and white, that contributed to the magazine. The short stories published in Negro Stories were portrayed fictional accounts of racist and sexist acts. These stories were meant to raise the social and political awareness of the magazine’s readers. The last issue of the Negro Story was published in 1946. While the magazine only ran for two years, it provided important commentary on the treatment of marginalized groups during World War II.
