Georgia
Articles about Georgia from The Crisis (1910-1934)
Georgia (15 articles)
Articles from The Crisis that focus on Georgia.
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| Date | Title | Description |
|---|---|---|
| 1911 (Jan) | The Flag | In a 1911 Crisis piece, W.E.B. Du Bois condemns States’ rights as shielding racial terror—arguing federal action is needed to protect Black citizens. |
| 1911 (Mar) | The White Primary | In The Crisis (1911) W.E.B. Du Bois shows how the white primary lets party bosses bar Black voters, disenfranchising citizens and threatening democracy. |
| 1912 (Feb) | Light | W.E.B. Du Bois in The Crisis (1912) counters the ‘child’ Negro myth, showing Phelps-Stokes-funded education reveals Black humanity beyond stereotype. |
| 1917 (Mar) | Civilization in the South | W.E.B. Du Bois in The Crisis (1917) condemns Southern culture as entwined with lynching, racist labor hierarchies, and anti-democratic barbarism. |
| 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 (Mar) | Dives, Mob, and Scab | W.E.B. Du Bois in The Crisis (1920) indicts industrialists and racist labor practices for driving Black workers to scab, lynching, and class conflict. |
| 1921 (Feb) | Lynchings and Mobs | W.E.B. Du Bois in The Crisis (1921) exposes how southern police, courts and press enforce racial terror—lynching, mob rule, and denial of justice. |
| 1921 (Mar) | The Woman Voter | W.E.B. Du Bois in The Crisis (1921) celebrates Black women’s voting as a democratic advance and reproves leaders like James B. Dudley who urged abstention. |
| 1922 (May) | Slavery | W.E.B. Du Bois, in The Crisis (1922), condemns ongoing slavery and racial labor exploitation in the South and demands justice for Black Americans. |
| 1923 (Jun) | A University Course in Lynching | In 1923 W.E.B. Du Bois in The Crisis condemns university ‘courses’ that normalize lynching, exposing racial injustice and corruption of American education. |
| 1926 (Feb) | The Newer South | In The Crisis (1926), W.E.B. Du Bois critiques the New South’s Jim Crow, lynching, and educational neglect while urging white Southerners to join racial justice. |
| 1927 (Feb) | Lynching | W.E.B. Du Bois in The Crisis (1927) denounces 1926’s surge in lynching, arguing failed local justice demands federal action to protect Black life and democracy. |
| 1929 (May) | Herbert Hoover and the South | W.E.B. Du Bois, The Crisis (1929) argues Hoover’s push for a white-led Southern Republicanism threatens Black suffrage, democracy, and exposes white supremacy. |
| 1930 (Feb) | Education | W.E.B. Du Bois in The Crisis (1930) denounces racial inequity in schooling, details funding disparities, and urges federal aid requiring nondiscrimination. |
| 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. |
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