Template:Did you know nominations/The Brownies' Book


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The result was: promoted by Allen3 talk 14:40, 9 February 2015 (UTC)

The Brownies' Book

 * ... that one of the goals of The Brownies' Book (pictured), the first African American publication for children, was to develop The Talented Tenth and leaders in the black community?
 * ALT1:... that African American poet Langston Hughes was first published in the The Brownies' Book (pictured)?
 * ALT2:... that The Brownies' Book (pictured), the first African American publication for children, published works by notable black authors Langston Hughes, Nella Larsen, Effie Lee Newsome, and others?
 * ALT3:... that the title of the children's magazine The Brownies' Book (pictured) alludes to black Americans being used as servants?
 * Reviewed: Template:Did you know nominations/Texas toad
 * Comment: Hold for display anytime in February, during Black History Month in the US

Created by Mindmatrix (talk). Self nominated at 17:54, 29 December 2014 (UTC).
 * Symbol voting keep.svg Great article. I read Du Bois' book The Souls of Black Folk in college and think he's a fascinating figure. I was glad to learn something new about him. Article is new and of sufficient length. I see no issues with NPOV. Citations are largely to academic publications and encyclopedias. All of the text appears to be supported by citations. Copying a few randomly-selected sentences into Google does not show any issues with plagiarism. Most of the sources are offline, so I'll make a good-faith assumption that there are no issues with close paraphrasing. All of the hooks appear to be supported by references (I might quibble that the source actually says that Langston Hughes' first poetry was published in The Brownies' Book, not that his first work was published there, but that's minor). The hooks are all interesting. I verified that QPQ was completed. Nice job.GabrielF (talk) 02:46, 31 December 2014 (UTC)
 * Thanks for the review. I'll check your quibble about Hughes in the next few days. In the meantime, could you also review the image, which you forgot to mention in your review. Mind  matrix  21:17, 3 January 2015 (UTC)
 * Sorry about that. Image is public domain (clearly marked June 1921) and is used in the article. It works reasonably well as a thumbnail.GabrielF (talk) 22:45, 3 January 2015 (UTC)


 * I think ALT3 is very interesting, and clickworthy. EEng (talk) 03:22, 12 January 2015 (UTC)