Haiti
Articles about Haiti from The Crisis (1910-1934)
Haiti (20 articles)
Articles from The Crisis that focus on Haiti.
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| Date | Title | Description |
|---|---|---|
| 1915 (Mar) | Hayti | In 1915 W.E.B. Du Bois in The Crisis urges America to save Hayti, defend Black sovereignty and democracy, and oppose imperialist graft. |
| 1915 (Mar) | Young | W.E.B. Du Bois in The Crisis 1915 honors Major Charles Young, praising his military and civic service and resilient defiance of racial abuse. |
| 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. |
| 1915 (Jun) | Booker T. Washington | W.E.B. Du Bois in The Crisis (1915) praises Booker T. Washington’s gains in Black education but faults him for aiding disfranchisement and color caste |
| 1915 (Jun) | Haiti | In a 1915 essay in The Crisis W.E.B. Du Bois exposes U.S. intervention in Haiti as racial domination, linking State Dept. policy to lynching and white supremacy. |
| 1917 (May) | Naval Ruler | In 1917 W.E.B. Du Bois in The Crisis criticizes military imperialism: naval officers govern colonies without training in democratic governance or social needs. |
| 1919 (Mar) | Memorandum to M. Diagne and Others on a Pan-African Congress to be held in Paris in February, 1919 | In 1919 W.E.B. Du Bois in The Crisis proposes a Paris Pan-African Congress to demand race rights, education, land and political voice for Black peoples. |
| 1919 (May) | Soldiers | In 1919 W.E.B. Du Bois in The Crisis documents Black soldiers’ valor abroad and demands equal military rank, commissioned officers, and racial justice at home. |
| 1920 (Mar) | The Rise of the West Indian | 1920: W.E.B. Du Bois in The Crisis shows how rising West Indian migration creates new Black political consciousness, labor demands, and race solidarity. |
| 1920 (Apr) | Haiti | In 1920 The Crisis, W.E.B. Du Bois condemns the U.S. occupation of Haiti as illegal racist repression that kills and deposes officials, denying Haitian democracy. |
| 1920 (Jun) | Presidential Candidates | 1920: W.E.B. Du Bois in The Crisis catalogs 17 presidential candidates’ stances on lynching, Jim Crow, schools and voting—exposing political silence. |
| 1920 (Sep) | The History of Haiti | In The Crisis (1920), W.E.B. Du Bois traces Haiti’s revolutionary struggle, showing how race, Black labor, and foreign capital shaped its path to democracy. |
| 1921 (Jan) | Political Rebirth and the Office Seeker | In The Crisis (1921), W.E.B. Du Bois urges Black voters to convert growing political power into deeds: federal anti-lynching, end Jim Crow, universal education. |
| 1921 (Apr) | Haiti | W.E.B. Du Bois in The Crisis (1921) urges Americans to demand U.S. withdrawal from Haiti, condemning imperialism and defending Black democracy. |
| 1921 (Nov) | To The World | W.E.B. Du Bois in The Crisis (1921) demands racial equality, self-government, education and labor rights, condemning colonialism and economic injustice. |
| 1922 (Jan) | N.A.A.C.P. and Xmas | In The Crisis (1922), W.E.B. Du Bois urges donations to the NAACP, funding race justice, anti-lynching efforts, Klan exposure and legal aid. |
| 1922 (May) | The President | In 1922’s The Crisis, W.E.B. Du Bois denounces Republican race patronage and urges anti-lynching, labor and education reforms to defend democracy. |
| 1924 (May) | How Shall We Vote | W.E.B. Du Bois in The Crisis (1924) urges voting La Follette–Wheeler, ties race and economic injustice to politics, condemns Coolidge and the Klan. |
| 1932 (Jan) | John Brown | W.E.B. Du Bois in The Crisis (1932) denounces a pro-Confederate monument at Harpers Ferry, exposing racialized memory and denial of Black resistance. |
| 1934 (May) | Violence | W.E.B. Du Bois in The Crisis (1934) warns that violence, given U.S. demographics, would provoke white backlash, justify repression, and imperil Black democracy. |
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