Yale's Beinecke Library Digitizes Sole, 1926 Issue of Fire!! A Quarterly Devoted the Younger Negro Artists

The Beinecke Rare Books and Manuscript Library at Yale has digitized the whole of Fire!!, a quarterly journal—but published only once, in November of 1926—"devoted to the younger Negro artists." Fire!! forms part of the Wallace Thurman Collection, is stamped as part of Carl Van Vechten's personal collection, and is usually available only to those in the reading room. This digitization offers readers and scholars across the globe a glimpse into African-American literature of the 1920s and casts a light on writers from the lesser-known to the literary giant (Zora Neale Hurston has both a play, "Color Struck," and a short story, "Sweat," in here). The "forward" page has been signed by the following contributors: