Nothing counts but pressure, pressure, more pressure,
and still more pressure through broad,
organized, aggressive mass action.
-A. Philip Randolph
Hellraisers Journal, Wednesday March 13, 1918
New York, New York – Announcing a New Socialist Magazine
From The Ohio Socialist of March 10, 1918:
NEGRO COMRADES ESTABLISH MAGAZINE
A journal that will fill a long felt want is now published in New York. It is “The Messenger,” a Socialist monthly. Brilliantly edited by our colored comrades in New York city, A. Philip Randolph and Chadler [Chandler] Owen. The negroes of America are to be congratulated in having such able men in charge of their first revolutionary journal.
We predict a great success for them in their noble work. They have a vast field to themselves to cultivate, and there is no doubt that under their able leadership the negroes of America will soon take their rightful place in the ranks of the revolutionary army.
One dollar for eight months, $1.50 a year. Published at 230 William street, New York city.-Arizona Bulletin.
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[Photographs added.]
SOURCE
The Ohio Socialist
“Official Organ of the Socialist Party of Ohio”
(Cleveland, Ohio)
-Mar 10, 1918, page 1
https://www.marxists.org/history/usa/pubs/ohio-socialist/016-mar-10-1918.pdf
IMAGES
The Messenger, NYC, Eds Randolph and Owen, Jan 1918
https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=uc1.c2904887;view=2up;seq=50
The Messenger Cover, Jan 1918
https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=uc1.c2904887;view=2up;seq=46
Messenger, Randolph and Owen, Nov 1917
https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=uc1.c2904887;view=2up;seq=38;size=150
See also:
The Arizona Bulletin 1897-1918
https://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn95060912/
Tag: The Messenger
https://weneverforget.org/tag/the-messenger/
The Messenger (Magazine)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Messenger_(magazine)
The Messenger (1917-1928)
http://www.blackpast.org/aah/messenger-1917-1928
The Messenger
http://spartacus-educational.com/USACmessenger.htm
The Messenger Reader:
Stories, Poetry, and Essays from The Messenger Magazine
-ed by Sondra K. Wilson
Modern Library, 2000
https://books.google.com/books?id=6edZAAAAMAAJ
A. Philip Randolph (1889-1979)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A._Philip_Randolph
Chandler Owen (1889-1967)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chandler_Owen
Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brotherhood_of_Sleeping_Car_Porters
A. Philip Randolph Speaks
“Rise from the Rails: The Story of the Pullman Porter” -DemocracyNow
Roll the Union On