''Survey Graphic'' (SG) was a

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magazine launched in 1921. From 1921 to 1932, it was published as a supplement to ''

The Survey Paul Underwood Kellogg (September 30, 1879 – November 1, 1958) was an American journalist and social reformer. He died at 79 in New York on November 1, 1958. Life He was born in Kalamazoo, Michigan, in 1879. After working as a journalist he mo ...

'' and became a separate publication in 1933. ''SG'' focused on sociological and political research and analysis of national and international issues. Bidding his readers to "embark on a voyage of discovery", editor

Paul Kellogg Paul Underwood Kellogg (September 30, 1879 – November 1, 1958) was an American journalist and social reformer. He died at 79 in New York on November 1, 1958. Life He was born in Kalamazoo, Michigan, in 1879. After working as a journalist he m ...

used a metaphor of a ship in his inaugural remarks for the new magazine: "''Survey Graphic'' will reach into the corners of the world — America and all the Seven Seas — to wherever the tides of a generous progress are astir." Article topics included fascism, anti-Semitism, poverty, unions and the working class, and education and political reform. The magazine ceased publication in 1952. In March 1925 the magazine produced an issue on "Harlem: Mecca of the New Negro", which was devoted to the African-American literary and artistic movement now known as the

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and established Harlem's status as the

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Alain Locke Alain LeRoy Locke (September 13, 1885 – June 9, 1954) was an American writer, philosopher, educator, and patron of the arts. Distinguished in 1907 as the first African-American Rhodes Scholar, Locke became known as the philosophical architect ...

guest-edited this issue. Much of the material appears in his 1925 anthology ''

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''.

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External links

There are a few online sources of reprints and other SG related materials. * The University of Virginia's Electronic Text Center had the complete "Harlem" issue online until 2008 (currentl
archived
via the

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). *Th
archival records of Survey Associates
publisher of ''Survey'', are at th
Social Welfare History Archives
University of Minnesota Libraries. *Selected records from Survey Associates and issues of ''Survey'' and its predecessor, ''Charities and Commons'', are available online on the University of Minnesota Librarie
Umedia portal.
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