Max Barber

Jesse Max Barber (July 5, 1878 – September 20, 1949) was an African-American journalist, teacher and dentist.

After graduation in 1903 he began working for the Voice of the Negro, a monthly literary magazine founded in 1904 in Atlanta, eventually becoming its editor-in-chief.

Barber, one of the founders of the Niagara Movement in 1905, sought out younger and more radical black writers for the Voice.

[1] After the Atlanta Riots in 1906, Barber faced threats from white vigilantes and was forced to flee to Chicago.

[1][2] In 1923, Barber attended and spoke what was hoped to be an annual "pilgrimage" of Blacks from "all parts of the Union" at John Brown's grave, in North Elba, New York.