Alabama
Articles about Alabama from The Crisis (1910-1934)
Alabama (13 articles)
Articles from The Crisis that focus on Alabama.
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| Date | Title | Description |
|---|---|---|
| 1911 (Jan) | The Truth | W.E.B. Du Bois, in The Crisis (1911), exposes Southern lies about Black suffrage, documenting racial disfranchisement and threats to democracy. |
| 1911 (Feb) | Education | In The Crisis (1911), W.E.B. Du Bois exposes systemic racial injustice in education, citing stark attendance, funding, and term-length disparities. |
| 1911 (Feb) | Southern Papers | 1911: W.E.B. Du Bois in The Crisis scolds white Southern papers for mocking race issues and defending peonage, exposing labor exploitation and hypocrisy. |
| 1911 (Jun) | Education | W.E.B. Du Bois in The Crisis (1911) urges national education reform, exposing how racial inequality and weak schools betray American democracy. |
| 1912 (Feb) | Anarchism | W.E.B. Du Bois argues in The Crisis (1912) that extortion by Southern officials manufactures Black crime, exposing white supremacy and harm to the poor. |
| 1917 (Jun) | The Migration of Negroes | W.E.B. Du Bois in The Crisis (1917) documents Black migration as a labor and rights exodus driven by lynching, disfranchisement, boll weevil and low wages. |
| 1920 (Jan) | American Legion, Again | In 1920 The Crisis, W.E.B. Du Bois urges Black veterans to join the American Legion, fight racial exclusion, and defend democracy. |
| 1920 (Apr) | Remember | In The Crisis (1920), W.E.B. Du Bois warns that the South’s fragile power relies on racial disfranchisement and urges federal defense of democracy. |
| 1921 (Jan) | Mount Hermon | In 1921 The Crisis, W.E.B. Du Bois condemns racial inequality in education, exposing philanthropy’s excuses and stark funding gaps for Black schools. |
| 1926 (May) | Crime | W.E.B. Du Bois argues in The Crisis (1926) that racist myths of Black criminality are false; crime stems from poverty, ignorance, and state oppression, not race. |
| 1933 (Feb) | Dodging the Issue | W.E.B. Du Bois in The Crisis (1933) attacks calls for nonresistance, blaming Southern mob violence and economic power for racial injustice. |
| 1933 (Mar) | Color Caste in the United States | In The Crisis (1933) W.E.B. Du Bois exposes the U.S. color caste that denies Black rights in marriage, labor, education and democracy. |
| 1934 (Jan) | Scottsboro | W.E.B. Du Bois in The Crisis (1934) condemns Scottsboro trials as racial injustice — Southern courts using law to punish Black lives for profit and prejudice. |
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