Woodrow Wilson
Articles discussing Woodrow Wilson from The Crisis (1910-1934)
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| Date | Title | Description |
|---|---|---|
| 1912 (Feb) | Politics | W.E.B. Du Bois argues in The Crisis (1912) that Black votes hold the balance of power, urging strategic demands for democracy, justice, and education reforms. |
| 1912 (May) | The Last Word in Politics | In The Crisis (1912), W.E.B. Du Bois urges Black voters to weigh race and democracy over party promises, endorsing a risky test of Wilson. |
| 1912 (Jun) | The Election | W.E.B. Du Bois in The Crisis (1912) defends Black support for Wilson, warns of Southern racism and disfranchisement, and urges real justice and democracy. |
| 1913 (Feb) | Burleson | 1913 W.E.B. Du Bois in The Crisis condemns Burleson’s push to segregate the federal civil service, links race exclusion to lynching, and urges action. |
| 1913 (Mar) | An Open Letter to Woodrow Wilson | In 1913 W.E.B. Du Bois in The Crisis urges Woodrow Wilson to defend Black civil rights—voting, education, labor access—and end lynching to save democracy. |
| 1913 (Jun) | Education | W.E.B. Du Bois in The Crisis (1913) warns democracy is at risk unless lynching, disfranchisement and racial discrimination are confronted. |
| 1913 (Nov) | Another Open Letter to Woodrow Wilson | W.E.B. Du Bois in The Crisis (1913) denounces federal segregation, warns Wilson this assault on race, democracy, and votes will cost political support. |
| 1914 (Feb) | The South in the Saddle | W.E.B. Du Bois in The Crisis (1914) exposes how Southern disfranchisement inflates Congressional power, forcing national policy and undermining democracy. |
| 1914 (May) | A Question of Policy and The Philosophy of Mr. Dole | 1914 The Crisis: W.E.B. Du Bois rejects conciliatory friends whose silence enables lynching and racial injustice, demanding Black democracy and voting rights. |
| 1914 (Jun) | William Monroe Trotter | W.E.B. Du Bois in The Crisis (1914) praises William Monroe Trotter’s fearless defense of Black equality and criticizes Wilson’s paternalistic race views. |
| 1915 (Feb) | The President | W.E.B. Du Bois in The Crisis (1915) sharply criticizes President Wilson’s insincere, Jim-Crow-promoting stance that betrays race and democracy. |
| 1915 (Mar) | Preparedness | W.E.B. Du Bois in The Crisis (1915) argues that true national preparedness requires ending lynching and securing racial justice under law. |
| 1915 (Apr) | Hayti | In 1915 The Crisis W.E.B. Du Bois condemns U.S. intervention in Hayti as racist imperialism, calling citizens to protest and defend sovereignty. |
| 1916 (Feb) | Carrizal | In The Crisis (1916), W.E.B. Du Bois condemns U.S. racism: Carrizal’s Black soldiers’ sacrifice exposes hypocrisy—honored in death, denied rights in life. |
| 1916 (May) | To the Rescue | In The Crisis (1916) W.E.B. Du Bois criticizes U.S. policy as Black troops fight to defend white liberties abroad, urging race-based self-defense and rights. |
| 1916 (May) | Mr. Hughes | W.E.B. Du Bois in The Crisis (1916) warns Republican promises won’t buy Black votes; demands specific racial and democratic commitments from Hughes. |
| 1916 (May) | Presidential Candidates | In 1916 The Crisis, W.E.B. Du Bois urges Charles Evans Hughes to oppose lynching, disfranchisement and segregation to protect race equality and democracy. |
| 1917 (Jan) | Justice | In 1917 The Crisis, W.E.B. Du Bois condemns the Justice Department’s racial hypocrisy, ignoring lynching and disfranchisement while policing alleged German plots. |
| 1917 (Feb) | Roosevelt | In 1917 The Crisis, W.E.B. Du Bois praises Theodore Roosevelt’s stand against East St. Louis violence and condemns national hypocrisy on lynching and democracy. |
| 1917 (Jun) | Baker | In 1917 The Crisis, W.E.B. Du Bois praises Secretary Baker’s fair treatment of Black troops and demands a second officers’ training camp to expand Negro officers |
| 1918 (Jan) | Thirteen | In The Crisis (1918), W.E.B. Du Bois condemns racial injustice: thirteen Black soldiers executed while white perpetrators go free, attacking American justice. |
| 1918 (Mar) | The Reward | In 1918 The Crisis, W.E.B. Du Bois argues Black wartime loyalty has won citizenship, labor gains, and steps against segregation and lynching. |
| 1918 (Mar) | The Work of a Mob | In The Crisis (1918) W.E.B. Du Bois documents brutal lynchings in Georgia, exposing racial terror and its assault on Black democracy and life. |
| 1918 (Apr) | Houston | W.E.B. Du Bois in The Crisis (1918) condemns racial injustice in the Houston military trials, demands officers’ court-martials, civilian punishment, and pardons |
| 1919 (Mar) | The American Legion | W.E.B. Du Bois in The Crisis (1919) condemns the American Legion’s racial exclusion of Black veterans and urges organized resistance to defend democracy. |
| 1919 (May) | Flaming Arrows | In The Crisis (1919) W.E.B. Du Bois argues Wilson’s rhetoric of democracy and justice exposes U.S. racial hypocrisy toward Black and colonized peoples. |
| 1919 (May) | Letters | In 1919 The Crisis, W.E.B. Du Bois urges southern white women to challenge disfranchisement, Jim Crow, lynching, and racial inequality in education and labor. |
| 1919 (May) | The League of Nations | In 1919 W.E.B. Du Bois in The Crisis urges pragmatic support for the League of Nations to secure peace and advance racial democracy against imperialism. |
| 1919 (Jun) | The Ballot | In The Crisis (1919), W.E.B. Du Bois demands the ballot for Black WWI veterans, arguing democracy and education must end race-based disenfranchisement. |
| 1920 (Feb) | Leadership | W.E.B. Du Bois in The Crisis (1920) condemns imperialist leadership - England and Wilson - for betraying democracy, racial justice, and labor in the League. |
| 1920 (Mar) | How Shall We Vote | In The Crisis 1920, W.E.B. Du Bois warns GOP and Democrats uphold Jim Crow; urges Black voters to elect congressional allies to defend race and democracy. |
| 1920 (Dec) | And Now Liberia | In 1920 The Crisis, W.E.B. Du Bois denounces Wilson Plan as financial imperialism, rigid US terms and white control threaten Liberian sovereignty and democracy. |
| 1928 (Dec) | Segregation | W.E.B. Du Bois in The Crisis (1928) chronicles federal workplace segregation’s rollback in Washington and calls for legal fights against racial discrimination. |
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