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Explore W.E.B. Du Bois’s writings from The Crisis by theme, subject, person, or place

Explore W.E.B. Du Bois’s 700+ articles from The Crisis magazine organized by theme, person, place, or time period.

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Across twenty-four years, Du Bois returned to the same interlocking problems. These thematic pages collect his editorials by subject and trace how his arguments evolved.

  • The Color Line (144 articles) — Segregation and social equality
  • The Mob (134 articles) — Lynching and racial violence
  • Voting & Elections (131 articles) — Disfranchisement and party strategy
  • Labor & Economics (111 articles) — Union exclusion and cooperativism
  • The South (90 articles) — Southern governance and migration
  • The World (90 articles) — Pan-Africanism and empire
  • Education (78 articles) — Schools, funding, philanthropic control
  • Internal Debate (72 articles) — Accommodationism, Garvey, NAACP methods
  • Art & Culture (61 articles) — Harlem Renaissance and Black institutions
  • The Compact (57 articles) — War, military service, betrayal
  • The Mission (51 articles) — Building the NAACP
  • The Soul (45 articles) — Religion and moral argument
  • Women’s Rights (41 articles) — Suffrage and political power
  • The Artist (36 articles) — Fiction, poetry, satire, allegory

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