Opportunity
A Journal of Negro Life

1927

(Selections from five issues)

Pub. monthly by the National Urban League, Department of Research and Investigation. Subscription $1.50 a year. The journal carried articles and a few ads, as well as special features, book reviews, fiction, and poetry. (Notes: African Americans, National Negro Business League, National Urban League Papers, Madam D.J. Walker.)


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Highlights from February, April, July, October, November:
"1926 - The Negro in Business" by Albon L. Holsey (Feb 1927 pp. 47-48)
Editorial on "Spaulding of North Carolina," on blacks in the insurance business, and "An Economic Consequence of Style," on potential discrimination against black barbers (Apr 1927, p. 99)
"Where St. Louis Negroes Work" (Apr 1927, p. 116)
Editorial on "Negro Women Workers" (Jul 1927, p. 191)
"Some Economic Aspects of Negro Migration" by Charles S. Johnson, including information on Mexican immigrants (Oct 1927, pp. 297-299)
A discussion of the 1927 annual meeting of the National Negro Business League in St. Louis, Missouri (Nov 1927, pp. 334-335).
Seven pages of advertisements at the back of the Nov 1927 issue publicize hotels and apartment buildings, the Poro School of Beauty Culture, the Madam C.J. Walker chain of beauty culture schools, the North Carolina Mutual Life Insurance Co., a black doll from the Madam Allone Doll Manufacturing Company in New York City, heating systems, lumber, restaurants, and others).

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