About
This archive contains over 700 articles by W.E.B. Du Bois from The Crisis, the official journal of the NAACP. Du Bois founded the magazine in 1910 and contributed to each of the 286 issues he edited before leaving in 1934. His writing ranged from short items on Black colleges to long essays on capitalism and racism, fiction, poetry, and satire. For the full story of his editorship, see Du Bois & The Crisis.
A Note on Content
Du Bois documented white racism as it was. These pages contain offensive language and images of racial violence meant to shock readers in the 1910s and 1920s. They remain shocking.
Sources and Contributing
The entire run of The Crisis is available at the Internet Archive. We review each issue to identify relevant pieces, then copy, clean, and format each one to match the original PDF. All articles are available in markdown format on the project’s GitHub site. Contributions are welcome.
Editorial Conventions
The versions published here reflect how they originally appeared. The hyphen in “to-day” is reproduced, for example, with a few exceptions:
- Paragraph-long quotes are indented.
- Drop caps and all-caps opening words are rendered in standard type.
- Punctuation is placed within quotation marks.
- Occasional spelling errors are corrected.
How to Cite
Individual articles:
Du Bois, W.E.B. [Year]. “[Title].” The Crisis Volume. Dare You Fight: W.E.B. Du Bois in The Crisis. [URL].
Example:
Du Bois, W.E.B. 1919. “Returning Soldiers.” The Crisis 18(1). Dare You Fight: W.E.B. Du Bois in The Crisis. https://www.dareyoufight.org/Volumes/18/01/returning_soldiers.html.
The collection:
Caren, Neal, ed. Dare You Fight: W.E.B. Du Bois in The Crisis. https://www.dareyoufight.org.
The website is produced using Quarto.
Neal Caren
