Chicago, Illinois
Articles about Chicago, Illinois from The Crisis (1910-1934)
Chicago, Illinois (36 articles)
Articles from The Crisis that focus on Chicago, Illinois.
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| Date | Title | Description |
|---|---|---|
| 1910 (Nov) | Segregation | Condemns school segregation as anti-democratic, arguing race-based separation degrades education and shirks public duty. |
| 1911 (May) | Prejudice | Denounces cultivated race prejudice in America and urges citizens to resist lies that undermine democracy. |
| 1912 (Mar) | Mr. Roosevelt | Exposes Theodore Roosevelt’s racism toward Black Americans and argues for equal rights, voting, and democracy. |
| 1912 (May) | The Last Word in Politics | Urges Black voters to weigh race and democracy over party promises, endorsing a risky test of Wilson. |
| 1914 (Mar) | A Crusade | Urges a new abolitionist crusade for race justice and democracy, calling for mass organization and support for the NAACP. |
| 1914 (Mar) | Lynching | Exposes how suppressed reporting masks lynching’s rise, documenting race-based violence and challenging ineffective reforms. |
| 1914 (Jun) | Murder | Shows how race prejudice fuels nationwide violence and unusually high murder rates, exposing a moral crisis. |
| 1914 (Jun) | Y.M.C.A | Praises Black YMCAs’ growth but condemns YMCA racial segregation as unchristian, unjust, and dangerous to race justice. |
| 1915 (Mar) | Colored Chicago | Profiles Chicago’s 50,000 Black residents, their labor, housing, schools, institutions, and racial barriers to advancement. |
| 1915 (Mar) | Some Chicagoans of Note | Profiles Black Chicago leaders, physicians, politicians, clergy and entrepreneurs, linking race, civic life and business. |
| 1916 (Jun) | Tenements | Exposes philanthropic tenement plans as racial segregation, urging democracy, fair sites, and transparency. |
| 1917 (Jun) | The Migration of Negroes | Documents Black migration as a labor and rights exodus driven by lynching, disfranchisement, boll weevil and low wages. |
| 1919 (Mar) | Let us Reason Together | Urges Black self-defense against lynching while warning against vengeful violence to uphold law, honor, and democracy. |
| 1919 (Apr) | Byrnes | W.E.B. in The Crisis (1919) argues Congressman Byrnes represents disfranchisement, lynching and wage theft, urging Fourteenth Amendment action. |
| 1919 (Apr) | Chicago and Its Eight Reasons | White, Walter F. in The Crisis (1919) examines Chicago riots, blaming prejudice, jobs, graft, police lapses, housing and the press. |
| 1920 (Feb) | A Matter of Manners | Argues that perceptions of Black manners provoke racial violence and lynching, exposing systemic injustice. |
| 1920 (Apr) | Hyde Park | Condemns white real-estate schemes enforcing racial segregation in Hyde Park and urges Black property ownership. |
| 1920 (Apr) | In Black | Urges Black communities to reject racist caricature, reclaim racial pride, and see beauty in black. |
| 1920 (Nov) | Progress | Says Black selfhood, education, labor organizing and business enterprise fueled rapid racial progress since emancipation. |
| 1921 (Jan) | Chicago | Warns that Illinois’ Inter-Racial Commission masks a segregation agenda, using questionnaires to trap Black leaders. |
| 1921 (Jan) | Votes for Negroes | Denounces Bourbon South racism and urges Black enfranchisement as the cornerstone of democracy against lynching. |
| 1921 (Feb) | Hopkinsville, Chicago and Idlewild | Urges the NAACP to agitate, educate and build democratic control of capital to secure Black economic democracy. |
| 1922 (Sep) | We Shuffle Along | (The Crisis, 1922) criticizes theatrical monopoly and white ignorance that bar Black performers, showing prejudice bred by censorship. |
| 1923 (Jan) | Political Straws | Analyzes Black voting strategy—rejecting enemies, backing allies, and demanding racial justice in democracy. |
| 1925 (Jun) | The Black Man and Labor | Urges Black labor solidarity, defends Pullman porters’ unionizing, and calls for openness to Soviet industrial reforms. |
| 1926 (Jan) | Pullman Porters | Defends Black Pullman porters’ labor rights, condemns company intimidation, press silence, and government corruption. |
| 1926 (Jan) | Murder | Analyzes rising U.S. murder and lynching in The Crisis (1926), showing how racialized violence undermines democracy and human life. |
| 1926 (Apr) | Criteria of Negro Art | 1926: He argues Black art must fuse Truth, Beauty, and Justice as a force for democracy and freedom from white gatekeepers. |
| 1927 (Feb) | Chicago | Condemns Chicago Democrats’ anti-Black campaign, showing race-driven tactics that coerced Black votes and weakened democracy. |
| 1927 (Jul) | Flood | Urges Black refugees to flee Southern racial terror—documenting lynching, exploitative relief, and labor coercion. |
| 1928 (May) | The Negro Politician | Examines how Black voters confront graft and Jim Crow, arguing informed participation is essential to democracy in The Crisis (1928). |
| 1928 (Dec) | The Election | Condemns the white primary, praises Oscar DePriest, and urges democracy against corrupt political machines. |
| 1929 (Feb) | DePriest | Defends Oscar DePriest’s election as a step for Black rights and democracy despite political compromises. |
| 1929 (May) | The Chicago Debate | Rebukes racialist arguments, defending cultural equality and arguing social equality is civilized and inevitable. |
| 1934 (May) | Violence | Warns that violence, given U.S. demographics, would provoke white backlash, justify repression, and imperil Black democracy. |
| 1934 (May) | Westward Ho | Argues Midwest adult education fosters democracy, reduces race prejudice, yet demands active resistance to segregation. |
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