How Shall We Vote

Voting & Elections
Urges voting La Follette–Wheeler, ties race and economic injustice to politics, condemns Coolidge and the Klan.
Author

W.E.B. Du Bois

Published

May 1, 1924

Cover of The Crisis, November 1924

The Crisis
November 1924

I shall vote for La Follette and Wheeler, unusually honest and straight-forward men. I believe in them. I do not believe in Coolidge. I despise Dawes and his ilk and I will trust no Wall Street lawyer nor any relative of southernized Bryan. I believe in the economic foundations of most of our present social problems and while I wish that the anti-Negro Railway Brotherhood who are supporting La Follette would let him say a plainer, cleaner word on the Negro, I remember that he has said as much as-Coolidge and could scarcely do less if elected president. Especially am I pleased at his clear-cut condemnation of the Klan and his promise to free Haiti.

Citation

For attribution, please cite this work as:
Du Bois, W.E.B. 1924. “How Shall We Vote.” The Crisis 29 (1): 13. https://www.dareyoufight.org/Volumes/29/01/how_shall_we_vote.html.