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Person · 1902–1934

Wallace Thurman

The editor of the avant-garde "Fire!!" and author of "The Blacker the Berry."

A provocateur of the [[harlem-renaissance]].

Wallace Thurman pushed the Renaissance's boundaries with the single-issue journal Fire!! and a novel confronting colorism within Black America.

On the timeline

  1. November 1926
    The "Fire!!" magazine

    Young artists — Thurman, Hughes, Hurston, Douglas — launch a daring one-issue journal of Black avant-garde art.

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