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Negro Digest (August 1965)

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Era Bell Thompson (1905-1986), a daughter of the rural Midwest who became an author, was a longtime editor and widely traveled journalist. Initially, Thompson was the editor of the Negro Digest, then joined Ebony magazine in 1947. She was co-managing editor of the magazine from 1951 to 1964, then international editor from 1964 until she retired.

''She was one of the early black woman journalists. She traveled all over the world. . . . She probably traveled more in her lifetime than anyone else I know of. I worked with her for 30 years. . . . She was an advocate of women`s lib long before it became popular.'' - Herbert Nipson, executive editor of Ebony from 1972 - 1987[X]

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Negro Digest, September 1966

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I HAVE been amazed by the Anglo-Saxon's lack of curiosity about the internal lives and emotions of the Negroes, and for that matter, any non-Anglo-Saxon peoples within our borders, above the class of unskilled labor. This lack of interest is much more important than it seems at first glance. It is even more important at this time than it was in the past. The internal affairs of the nation have bearings on the international stress and strain, and this gap in the national literature now has tremendous weight in world affairs. National coherence and solidarity is implicit in a thorough understanding of the various groups within a nation, and this lack of knowledge about the internal emotions and behavior of the minorities cannot fail to bar out understanding. Man, like all the other animals, fears and is repelled by that which he does not understand, and mere difference is apt to connote something malign. The fact that there is no demand for incisive and full-dress stories around Negroes above the servant class is indicative of something of vast importance to this nation. This blank is NOT filled by the fiction built around upper- class Negroes exploiting the race problem. Rather, it tends to point it up. A college-bred Negro still is not a person like other folks, but an interesting problem, more or less. It calls to mind a story of slavery time. In this story, a master with more intellectual curiosity than usual, set out to see how much he could teach a particularly bright slave of his. When he had gotten him up to higher mathematics and to be a fluent reader of Latin, he called in a neighbor to show off his brilliant slave, and to argue that Negroes had brains just like the slave-owners had, and given the same opportunities, would turn out the same.

Zora Neale Hurston - “What White Publishers Won’t Print” (Negro Digest, 1950)